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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: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
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Chicago
Illinois
Guessed
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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.
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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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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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Just once in my life--oh, when have I ever wanted anything just once in my life?
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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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And I see that not touching for so long was a drive to the beach with the windows rolled up so the waves feel that much colder.
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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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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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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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.
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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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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater.
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
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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 leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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Dreams: the place most of us get what we need.
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