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I work hard, do my best and send it out to the world hoping that people can relate to it. I accept any reaction and hope they think it is worth reading.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.
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I wanted to connect a modern story with a myth that I had read.
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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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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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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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I need to get lost and sometimes my characters lead me to places I don't expect to go.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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If you risked love, it took you wherever you wanted to go. If you repressed it, you ended up unhappy.
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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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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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Its the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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