Amy Hempel - Reasons to live (1985)

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I don't get used to living at the beach, to seeing that wet horizon. It's the edge, the country's aisle seat.

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He's a real teenager of a dog — if Boris didn't have whiskers, he'd have pimples.

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I thought, my love is so good, why isn't it calling the same thing back.

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

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My job... I do nothing, it pays nothing, but — you guessed it — it's better than nothing.

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I sleep with a glass of water on the nightstand so I can see by its level if the coastal earth is trembling or if the shaking is still me.

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The worst of it is over now, and I can't say that I am glad. Lose that sense of loss—you have gone and lost something else.

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I know that homes burn and that you should think what to save before they start to. Not because, in the heat of it, everything looks as valuable as everything else. But, because nothing looks worth the bother, not even your life.

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They say the smart dog obeys but the smarter dog knows when to disobey.

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The motto of this agency is We Never Knowingly Ruin Your Vacation.

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