I don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
AIMEE BENDERWe’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.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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