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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.

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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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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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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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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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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My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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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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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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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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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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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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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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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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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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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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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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The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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