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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Thought
Back
Thing
Good
Love
Calling

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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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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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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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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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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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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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And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
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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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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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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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