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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
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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There’s so much I can’t read because I get so exasperated. Someone starts describing the character boarding the plane and pulling the seat back. And I just want to say, Babe, I have been downtown. I have been up in a plane. Give me some credit.
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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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When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached.
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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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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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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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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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