As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
AIMEE BENDERI watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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 watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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