Amy Hempel Quotes - Page 3

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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?

  Amy Hempel

  Thinking, Space, Scrabble

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Look at me. My concerns-are they spiritual, do you think, or carnal? Come on. We've read our Shakespeare.

  Amy Hempel

  Spiritual, Thinking, Looks

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.275, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Amy Hempel

  Thinking, Way

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.236, Simon and Schuster

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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?

  Amy Hempel

  Moving, Doctors, Years

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• nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.

  Amy Hempel

  Trouble

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Amy Hempel

  Men, Thinking, Ifs

  Amy Hempel (1997). “Tumble Home: A Novella and Short Stories”, Scribner Book Company

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• consolation is a beautiful word. everyone skins his knee-that doesnt make yours hurt anyless.

  Amy Hempel

  Beautiful, Hurt, Skins

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.270, Simon and Schuster

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• He wondered how we know that what happens to us isn't good.

  Amy Hempel

  Happens, Knows

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Amy Hempel

  Loss, Gone, One Step At A Time

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

  Amy Hempel

  Beer, Car, Gone

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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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?

  Amy Hempel

  Men, Stories, Ledges

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.74, Simon and Schuster

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• 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

  Writing, Interesting, Want

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• I think you would like Warren. He drinks Courvoisier in a Coke can, and has a laugh like you'd find in a cartoon bubble.

  Amy Hempel

  Thinking, Laughing, Cartoon

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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.

  Amy Hempel

  Envy, Waiting, Tumbling

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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.

  Amy Hempel

  Good Night, Dog, Children

  Amy Hempel (2006). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Since his mother died I have seen him steam a cucumber thinking it was zucchini. That's the kind of thing that turns my heart right over.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Heart, Thinking

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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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!

  Amy Hempel

  Dark, Rivers, Lightning

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.296, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Amy Hempel

  Mother, Accomplishment, Age

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