It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
AIMEE BENDERI don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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It was a fleeting statement, one I didn’t think she’d hold on to; after all, she had birthed us alone, diapered and fed us, helped us with homework, kissed and hugged us, poured her love into us.
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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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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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