Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.
("I Know This Much Is True")
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I didn't respond to him. Couldn't speak at all. Couldn't look at his self-mutilation--not even the clean, bandaged version of it. Instead, I looked at my own rough, stained house painter's hand. They seemed more like puppets than hands. I had no feelings in it either.Wally Lamb
This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.
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He was right. And he was an insensitive shit.
Wally Lamb
That's the problem with survival of the fittest ... the corpse at your fett. That little inconvenience.
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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Joy said she hadn't really understood the meaning of life until Tyffanie had come along, but now she understood it perfectly. Well, great, I felt like saying. Make sure you share the news with Plato and Kierkegaard and all those other philosophers who'd banged their heads against the wall, trying to figure things out.
Wally Lamb
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