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.
AIMEE BENDERI give boring people something to discuss over corn.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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I like birthday cake. It’s so symbolic. It’s a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just ‘Happy birthday!’ because it’s this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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Light is good company, when alone; I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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It is so often surprising, who rescues you at your lowest moments.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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