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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
Scarce
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Leaders
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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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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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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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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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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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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I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I can't wait to tell you what happened the other day. It comes tumbling out and maybe then they go back and refine. I kind of envy that way of working, but I just have never done it.
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I am not quite myself, I think.But who here is quite himself? And yet there is a way in which we are all more ourselves than ever, I suppose.
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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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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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My job ... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but - you guessed it - it's better than nothing.
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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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He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them.
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