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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
Dreams
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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 get rational when I panic.
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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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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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Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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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 thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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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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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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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 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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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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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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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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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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