I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
AIMEE BENDERI am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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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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Pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter; Joseph was her it.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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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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