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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, My God, was that an earthquake? The doctor said this: Did it feel like an earthquake to you?
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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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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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Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
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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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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
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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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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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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 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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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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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.
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What I think, Chatty says, is that if a man loves a woman more than a woman loves a man, then they're even.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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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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