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I'm a very rooted person. I grew up in Norwich, Connecticut, I still live in Connecticut.

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

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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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