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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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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 leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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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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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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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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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 had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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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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I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.
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