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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 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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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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I get rational when I panic.
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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 meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
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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 leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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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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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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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'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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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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Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
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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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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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