Amy Hempel - Person Quotes

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I have written letters that are failures, but I have written few, I think, that are lies. Trying to reach a person means asking the same question over and over again: Is this the truth, or not? I begin this letter to you, then, in the western tradition. If I understand it, the western tradition is: Put your cards on the table.

Amy Hempel

It is possible to imagine a person so entirely that the image resists attempts to dislodge it.

Amy Hempel

I meet a person, and in my mind I'm saying three minutes; I give you three minutes to show me the spark.

Amy Hempel

I told him about the way they get to know you. Not the way people do, the way they flatter you by wanting to know every last thing about you, only it isn't a compliment, it is just efficient, a person getting more quickly to the end of you. Correction - dogs do want to know every last thing about you. They take in the smell of you, they know from the next room, asleep, when a mood settles over you. The difference is there's not an end to it.

Amy Hempel