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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.


Wally Lamb

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WALLY AMOS I believe, along with many others, that you must first ask for what you want before you can have it.
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CHARLES LAMB Lawyers I suppose were children once.
CHARLES LAMB He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.
CHARLES LAMB A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.
CHARLES LAMB The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance.
CHARLES LAMB Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know.
CHARLES LAMB My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more.
CHARLES LAMB Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions fo...
CHARLES LAMB When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with...
CHARLES LAMB A child is fed with milk and praise.
MARY LAMB Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.
CHARLES LAMB We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always...
CHARLES LAMB A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an od...
CHARLES LAMB A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feath...
CHARLES LAMB Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothi...
CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by acciden...
CHARLES LAMB The beggar wears all colors fearing none.
CHARLES LAMB How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. S...
CHARLES LAMB For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hea...
CHARLES LAMB The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days.
CHARLES LAMB To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives.
CHARLES LAMB Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment.
CHARLES LAMB Presents, I often say, endear absents.
CHARLES LAMB