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Tell Quotes by Amy Hempel
- 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…
- I leave a lot out when I tell the truth
- A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours…
- 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,…
- I want to know everything about you, so I tell you everything about myself.
- 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.…
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- 'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.' — Wystan Hugh Auden