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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
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
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Remembering
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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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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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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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I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
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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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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 get rational when I panic.
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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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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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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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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've always known when I start a story what the last line is. It's always been the case, since the first story I ever wrote. I don't know how it's going to get there, but I seem to need the destination. I need to know where I end up. It never changes, ever.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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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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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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Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.
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