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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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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died...They're with me still. They're here...
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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 walked over and looked closer at the statue of the goddess. She was wearing a headdress with a skull and a cobra and a crescent moon. Maybe this is what peace of mind was all about: having a poisonous snake on your head and smiling anyway.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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