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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.

Wally Lamb

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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
Author
Novelist
Writer
Norwich
Connecticut
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Moving
Others
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Teaches
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Essentially
Something
Moves
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When I was a kid, I was surrounded by girls: older sisters, older girl cousins just down the street... except for an older boy named Vito who threw rocks. Each year I would wish for a baby brother. It never happened.
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I won't read novels while writing novels.
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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
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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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First I laughed my way through Elinor Lipman's book of political tweets. Then I put my ear to the ground and listened to Molly Ivins guffawing from the grave. Lipman is a piquant poetic rock star!
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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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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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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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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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All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.
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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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So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back.
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I like to write first-person because I like to become the character I'm writing.
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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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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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Getting a job scared her but she was determined not to shy away from risk. That's what life's all about. Climbing out onto the airplane wing and jumping off.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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