I want to be violated by insight.
AIMEE BENDERThe most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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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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She is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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