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Wally Lamb
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 17
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Norwich
Connecticut
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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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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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The greatest griefs are silent.
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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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 grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to write in female voices, as well as male, with having grown up with older sisters in a neighborhood largely populated by girls.
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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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What if I don’t like adventure? Then cultivate a taste for it. Take a chance. That’s how you grow.
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Love stories are probably all Ive ever been able to write or want to write.
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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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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
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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 want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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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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Connecticut is in my blood.
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I love the most the students with troubled lives.
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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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