It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
AIMEE BENDERI 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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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 seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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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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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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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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When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
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I’m obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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