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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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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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Chicago
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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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My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being 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 think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
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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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A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.
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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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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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