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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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Chicago
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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.
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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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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 want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
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A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.
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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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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 wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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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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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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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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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 moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
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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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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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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.
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Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
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