I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
AIMEE BENDERLarge meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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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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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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