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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
Amy Hempel
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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
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I'm not good at small talk I'm not good at big talk and medium talk just doesn't come up.
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if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.
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There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.
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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.
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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
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I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
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I get rational when I panic.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss--you have gone and lost something else.
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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 thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.
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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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