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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
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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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The evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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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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Change what you can, accept what you can't, and be smart enough to know the difference
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Life is a whoopee cushion, a chair pulled away just as you were taking a seat.
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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.
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Hardest thing: creating something out of nothing - the first draft is torturous.
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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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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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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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Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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