Wally Lamb Quotes

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• If the book is true, it will find an audience that is meant to read it.
• The seeker embarks on a journey to find what he wants and discovers, along the way, what he needs.
• Human behavior in the midst of hardship caught my attention very early on, and my first stories were all pictures, no words.
• The roundness of life's design may be a sign that there is a presence beyond ourselves.
• 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…
• 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…
• Love is like breathing, you take it in and let it out.
• 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…
• I am not a smart man, particularly, but one day, at long last, I stumbled from the dark woods of my own, and my family's,…
• But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
• I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.
• With destruction comes renovation.
• Religion's just a well-oiled profit-driven denial of the randomness of it all.
• If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.
• Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
• 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…
• A woman who surrenders her freedom need not surrender her dignity.
• I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.
• I don't know. Maybe we're all chaos theorists. Lovers of pattern and predictability, we're scared shitless of explosive change. But we're fascinated by it, too.…
• All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

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