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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
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Woman
Even
Men
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Chatty
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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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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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 leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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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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My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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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 often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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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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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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It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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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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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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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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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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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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