Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
AIMEE BENDERBefore she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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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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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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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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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And the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn’t appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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I could feel the tears beginning to collect in my throat again, but I pushed them apart, away from each other. Tears are only a threat in groups.
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