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

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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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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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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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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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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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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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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I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
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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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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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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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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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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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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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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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