The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
AIMEE BENDERThe writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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We’re all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there’s too much thought and not enough heart.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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