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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
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Persons
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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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 sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.
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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 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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Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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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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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
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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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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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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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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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