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Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
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I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
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I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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I get rational when I panic.
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The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
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It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
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As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
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I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
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