Wally Lamb quotes

Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love. (Wally Lamb)
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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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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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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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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The greatest griefs are silent.
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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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Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.
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But I think this: that whatever prices I've paid, whatever sorrows I shoulder, well, I have blessings, too. Not just my family now, but the others-the ones who have died... They're with me still. They're here...
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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 usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love. (Wally Lamb)
Love is like breathing. You take it in and let it out.
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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 whatmake you happy.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
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With destruction comes renovation.
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Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
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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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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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Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all. (Wally Lamb)
I thought about how love was always the thing that did that - smashed into you, left you raw. The deeper you loved, the deeper it hurt.
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A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
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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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Love comes in far more shapes and sizes than what the family-values crowd condones, of course.
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