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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
Illinois
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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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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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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
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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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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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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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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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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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Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
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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 get rational when I panic.
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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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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
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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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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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