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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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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
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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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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
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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'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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I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
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Obviously, in journalism, you're confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it's in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one.
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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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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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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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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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I get rational when I panic.
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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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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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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A love affair begins with a fantasy. For instance, that the beloved will always be there.
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Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.
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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 sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.
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