I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
AIMEE BENDERIt seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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