I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
AIMEE BENDERIt’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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