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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
Polo
Bowling
Eastern
Western
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Connecticut

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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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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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I try to stick with what moves me or teaches me about myself, same thing I hope the novels do for others.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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