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.
AIMEE BENDERThe wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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 felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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 didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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