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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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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 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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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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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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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 could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.
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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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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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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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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
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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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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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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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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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