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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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Amy Hempel
Age: 72
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Jobs
Better
Nothing
Work
Guessed
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For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.
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I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.
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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 want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
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He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.
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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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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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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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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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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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Journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one. You are trained to get rid of anything nonessential. You go in, you start writing your article, assuming a person's going to stop reading the minute you give them a reason. So the trick is: don't give them one.
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
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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 moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
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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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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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Maybe this is not a come-down-from-the-ledge story. But I tell it with the thought that the woman on the ledge will ask herself a question, the question that occurred to that man in Bogota. He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good?
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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.
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