"Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean……" — Amy Hempel
"Just because you have stopped sinking doesn't mean you're not still underwater."
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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 Sinking Quotes
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As I look around, I get this sinking feeling that we're off track, that there's something sick in the soul…
— Kirk Cameron
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Ah come on, these streams of light are not so subtle. All along the ditch, signs of life in sinking…
— Unknown Author
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I do not use airplanes. They strike me as unsporting. You can have an automobile accident-and survive. You can be…
— Isaac Asimov
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When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to…
— Robert Murray M'Cheyne
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She was like a sinking ship firing on the rescuers.
— Alexander Woollcott
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If a man is not rising upward to be an angel, depend on it, he is sinking downward to be…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Learning to know anxiety is an adventure which every man has to affront if he would not go to perdition…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect…
— Matthieu Ricard
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I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and…
— Charles Spurgeon
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A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting…
— Ming-Dao Deng
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The law of floatation was not discovered by contemplating the sinking of things, but by contemplating the floating of things…
— Thomas Troward
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All self-effort is but sinking sand. Christ alone is the Rock of our salvation.
— Henry Allen Ironside
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