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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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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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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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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 thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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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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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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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'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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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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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
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