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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Thing
Mind
Time
Lying
Peace

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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
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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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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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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'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 wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry.
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nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.
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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 think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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I'm not good at small talk I'm not good at big talk and medium talk just doesn't come up.
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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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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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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 know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.
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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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