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I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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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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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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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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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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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
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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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I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
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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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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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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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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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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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I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
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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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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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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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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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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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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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