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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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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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Dialogue comes naturally to me and I can hear the characters' voices in the scenes.
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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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I think... the secret is to just settle for the shape of your life takes...Instead of you know, always waiting and wishing for what might make you happy.
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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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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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