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

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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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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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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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 often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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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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Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, I knew girls who saved his gum.
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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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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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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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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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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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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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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.
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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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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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