Wally Lamb Quotes

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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 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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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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I usually learn more from the situations I hate than the ones I love.

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The point is this: that the stream of memory may lead you to the river of understanding. And understanding, in turn, may be a tributary to the river of forgiveness.

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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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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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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, and my country's past, holding in my hands these truths: that love grows from the rich loam of forgiveness; that mongrels make good dogs; that the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things. This much, at least, I've figured out. I know this much is true.

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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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If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

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I cried because I had no shoes. Then I met a man who had no feet.

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Only there's two sides to every story, you know. You just remember that.

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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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People waste their happiness - that's what makes me sad. Everyone's so scared to be happy.

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