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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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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.
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if it's true your life flashes past your eyes before you die, then it is also the truth that your life rushes forth when you are ready to start to truly be alive.
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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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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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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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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'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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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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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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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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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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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.
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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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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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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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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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