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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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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 the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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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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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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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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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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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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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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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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As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.
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