"I exaggerated even before I began to exaggerate, because it's true â€” nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be."

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Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

Amy Hempel

“The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.”
“Often, we are too slow to recognize how much and in what ways we can assist each other through sharing expertise and knowledge.”
“We fall into the old stuff of textuality, and almost everything becomes safe because nobody wants to talk about what is not safe in poetry. We fall back on the psychologic, the ethnic, the quota, and serve the perpetuation of the machine.”

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“I grew up in a highly Hispanic neighborhood. It was very rare to find any race other than Mexicans. I feel very comfortable around Spanish speakers and people from Mexico and people who don't always feel comfortable living in the U.S. because they are in fear of being deported.”
“I'd give Donald Trump an "F." This has been the worst 100-day transition in my lifetime. And I was born during Franklin D. Roosevelt's term. This White House is by far the worst-run I have ever seen, certainly in modern times.”

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“There is not much talking now. A silence falls upon them all. This is no time to talk of hedges and fields, or the beauties of any country. Sadness and fear and hate, how they well up in the heart and mind, whenever one opens pages of these messengers of doom. Cry for the broken tribe, for the law and the custom that is gone. Aye, and cry aloud for the man who is dead, for the woman and children bereaved. Cry, the beloved country, these things are not yet at an end. The sun pours down on the earth, on the lovely land that man cannot enjoy. He knows only the fear of his heart.”
“Behind me the branches of a wasted and sterile existence are cracking.”
“People will always challenge you on an idea as long as it has not been concretized by somebody else.”

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