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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.

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
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The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
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I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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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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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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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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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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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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Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
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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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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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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 had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.
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