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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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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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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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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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All those years on the psychiatrist's couch and suddenly the couch is moving. Good God, she is on that couch when the big one hits. Maidy didn't tell you, but you know what her doctor said? She sprang from the couch and said, My God, was that an earthquake? The doctor said this: Did it feel like an earthquake to you?
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
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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 think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.
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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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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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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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I started writing by doing small related things but not the thing itself, circling it and getting closer. I had no idea how to write fiction. So I did journalism because there were rules I could learn. You can teach someone to write a news story. They might not write a great one, but you can teach that pretty easily.
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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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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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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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My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
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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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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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