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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
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.
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However far fiction writers stray from their own lives and experiences - and I stray pretty far from mine - I think, ultimately, that we may be writing what we need to write in some way, albeit unconsciously.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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I try to find something that applies not to me only, but to others, but don't try to control it too much. Essentially it is about what moves us, teaches us about ourselves.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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Look, don't just stare at the pages, I used to tell my students. Become the characters. Live inside the book.
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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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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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