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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
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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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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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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 thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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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 wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
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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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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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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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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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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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