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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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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Attempts
Entirely
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Imagine
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Persons
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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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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
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Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, I knew girls who saved his gum.
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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I get rational when I panic.
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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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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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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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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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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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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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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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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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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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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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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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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