You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
AIMEE BENDERYou can ruin anything if you focus at it.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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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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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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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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