"In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak."

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Source : Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

Amy Hempel

#Fall Quotes #Broken Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Perhaps the saddest irony of depression is that suicide happens when the patient gets a little better and can again function sufficiently.”
“Too many times we insist on loving people the way we want to love them instead of the way they need to be loved.”
“Take your love and your pleasure as you find it. Do not worry so much of the future that you let today pass you by. you are happy. need you know more than that?”
“We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.”
“Federal government shutdowns are unsettling, because you realize how little you depend on it compared to the money you give in taxes.”
“One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself.”
“What is demanded of man is not, as some existential philosophers teach, to endure the meaninglessness of life, but rather to bear his incapacity to grasp its unconditional meaningfulness in rational terms.”
“Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.”

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