It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
AIMEE BENDERI was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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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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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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