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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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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
Everyday
Computer
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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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Eastern Connecticut is very different from Western we're more liverwurst than pâté, more bowling than polo.
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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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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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I think I write fiction for the opportunity to get beyond the limits of my own life.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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