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Amy Hempel
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“... nothing is ever quite as bad as it could be.”
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“For peace of mind, I will lie about any thing at any time.”
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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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“The motto of this agency is We Never Knowingly Ruin Your Vacation.”
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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 don't get used to living at the beach, to seeing that wet horizon. It's the edge, the country's aisle seat.”
Amy Hempel, U.S. writer, journalist, educator
(1951)