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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.

Amy Hempel

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Amy Hempel
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: December 14
Journalist
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
Much
Waves
Long
Touching
Beach
Wave
Drive
Window
Colder
Feel
Rolled
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consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.
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I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!
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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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Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.
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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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We can only die in the future, I thought right now we are always alive.
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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 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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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.
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