"I would like to go for a ride……" — Amy Hempel
"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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59 Quotes by Amy Hempel
Amy Hempel has 59 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Sometimes a flat-footed sentence is what serves, so you don't get all writerly: 'He opened the door.' There, it's open.
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I probably have less revision than those who have that wonderful rush of story to tell - you know, I…
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Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette…
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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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An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.
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I think of the chimp, the one with the talking hands.
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I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal…
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I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
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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,…
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The year I began to say vahz instead of vase, a man I barely knew nearly accidentally killed me.
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Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
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More Blink Quotes
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If we play to first time Blink 182 listeners, it's good they are listening to us and not the Backstreet…
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You're going to die soon enough anyway; even if it's a hundred years from now, that's still the blink of…
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Now simmer blinks on flowery braes, And o'er the crystal streamlet plays.
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Blink and you miss a sprint. The 10,000 meters is lap after lap of waiting. Theatrically, the mile is just…
— Sebastian Coe
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Death - to blink for an exceptionally long period of time.
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Why women don't blink during foreplay... not enough time.
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A blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts ... the body language of a man wishing urgently to be…
— Edward R. Murrow
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Thus will we deal with life, my little help-meet. Will we not, eh? What though it blink at us like…
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Don't blink. You just might miss your babies growing like mine did. Turning into moms and dads next thing you…
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When I was in love, I fell so hard. I was really, really, really in love. The way it made…
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What a glorious night. Every face I see is a memory. It may not be a perfectly perfect memory. Sometimes…
— Anthony Hopkins
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My indigestion issues got gigantic and constant. And then I started thinking, I'm getting skinny. I dropped about 20 pounds…
— Patrick Swayze
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