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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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I've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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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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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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I get rational when I panic.
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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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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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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true — 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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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'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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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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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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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 often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.
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