I am not happy, help me — like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
AIMEE BENDERI was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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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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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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