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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: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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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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I get rational when I panic.
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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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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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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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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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I'm not first and foremost interested in story and the what-happens, but I'm interested in who's telling it and how they're telling it and the effects of whatever happened on the characters and the people.
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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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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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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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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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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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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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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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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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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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