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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
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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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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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!
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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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Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
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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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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always 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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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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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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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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I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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The only time the word baby doesn't scare me is the time that it should, when it is what a man calls me.
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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
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I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
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