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Connecticut is in my blood.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
Connecticut
Blood

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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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I am a plodder, I make an appointment with my computer everyday and I have no idea where I am going.
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I love revising. If you demystify the process, it comes down to four strategies: what can I do to make the draft better what should I cut out to make it stronger what do I need to do to clarify it and finally, what should I reposition.
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The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
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I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.
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I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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