I want to be violated by insight.
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More Aimee Bender Quotes
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope; make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.” – Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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