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I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Veterinarian
Slipped
Organic
Chemistry
Wanted

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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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Sometimes I can better describe a person by another person's reaction. In a story in my first book, I couldn't think of a way to sufficiently describe the charisma of a certain boy, so the narrator says, I knew girls who saved his gum.
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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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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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 had a mother I could only seem to please with verbal accomplishments of some sort or another. She read constantly, so I read constantly. If I used words that might have seemed surprising at a young age, she would recognize that and it would please her.
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I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me.
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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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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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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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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The other day I was playing Scrabble. I saw that I could close the space in D-E- -Y. I had an N and an F. Which do you think I chose? What was the word I made?
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I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes I give you three minutes to show me the spark.
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I could claim any number of high-flown reasons for writing, just as you can explain certain dogs behavior... But maybe, it’s that they’re dog, and that’s what dogs do.
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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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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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