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

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
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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 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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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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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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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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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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Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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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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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 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 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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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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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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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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