This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
AIMEE BENDERBut what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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