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I write to find out what the story means to me, that is what I try to do especially with the first draft.

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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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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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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My Italian-American heritage, of which I'm very proud and with which I identify strongly, surfaces in several of my novels.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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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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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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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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