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Amy Hempel Quotes
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth (Amy Hempel Quotes)
Nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be (Amy Hempel Quotes)
For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time (Amy Hempel Quotes)
I often feel the effects of people only after they leave me (Amy Hempel Quotes)
I wanted to be a veterinarian, but slipped up when I hit organic chemistry (Amy Hempel Quotes)
We can only die in the future, I thought; right now we are always alive (Amy Hempel Quotes)
Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed (Amy Hempel Quotes)
An idea might spark an essay, but never a story (Amy Hempel Quotes)
I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands (Amy Hempel Quotes)
They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey (Amy Hempel Quotes)
He could not wait to get rid of them so he could enjoy remembering them (Amy Hempel Quotes)
There’s no such thing as luck. Luck is where preparation meets opportunity (Amy Hempel Quotes)
I get rational when I panic (Amy Hempel Quotes)
Dreams: the place most of us get what we need (Amy Hempel Quotes)
I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself (Amy Hempel Quotes)
I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence (Amy Hempel Quotes)
He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn’t good (Amy Hempel Quotes)
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 (Amy Hempel Quotes)
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 (Amy Hempel Quotes)
Obviously, in journalism, you’re confined to what happens. And the tendency to embellish, to mythologize, it’s in us. It makes things more interesting, a closer call. But journalism taught me how to write a sentence that would make someone want to read the next one (Amy Hempel Quotes)
In my head there’s a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak (Amy Hempel Quotes)
I thought, my love is so good, why isn’t it calling the same thing back (Amy Hempel Quotes)