Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you …

Amy Hempel
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Wear your heart on the page, and people will read to find out how you solved being alive.
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I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.32, Simon and Schuster
When my mother died, my father's early widowhood gave him social cachet he would not have had if they had divorced. He was a bigger catch for the sorrow attached. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The … ▶
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 (2006). The Collected Stor … ▶
The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me. ✨ Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel, p.103, Simon and Schuster

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