Wally Lamb Quotes: That’s the trouble with survival of the fittest,…

That's the trouble with survival of the fittest, isn't it, Dominick? The corpse at your feet. That little inconvenience.

("I Know This Much Is True")

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Eventually, I reached the other side of the chasm and understood the differences between the two men. I no longer hated Daddy: he had been a shitty father and a shitty husband - a man who's made two bad choices based on lust and coveting and then been too weak either to live with them or undo them. But he had not been a rapist.
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But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?
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If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.
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As my early drawings warned me, where humans go, lions and tidal waves follow.
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This was what could happen to you: you could end up this far from where you thought you were going.
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