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.
AIMEE BENDERIt seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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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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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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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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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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