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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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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 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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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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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
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I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
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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 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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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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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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It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
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I get rational when I panic.
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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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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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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 assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
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Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.
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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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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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