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I Know This Much Is True

Name: I Know This Much Is True
Author: Wally Lamb

I Know This Much Is True is a novel by Wally Lamb, published in 1998. It was featured in Oprah's Book Club in June 1998.

“With destruction comes renovation.”

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“that books were mirrors, reflective in sometimes unpredictable ways.”

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

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“Take what people give you. Drink their milkshakes.”

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Variant: Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love.
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“Power, wrongly used, defeats the oppressor as well as the oppressed.”

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“I needed her to stop. Needed not to hear the pain in her voice--to see the way she was twisting the pocketbook strap. If she kept talking, she might break down and tell me everything.”

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“But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?”

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“It is all connected Dominick," she said. "Life is not a series of isolated ponds & puddles; life is this river you see below, before you. It flows from the past through the present on it's way to the future.”

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“The greatest griefs are silent.”

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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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“Love grows from the rich foam of forgiveness, mongrels make good dogs, and the evidence of God exists in the roundness of things.”

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