It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
AIMEE BENDER
Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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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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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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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 admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it’s giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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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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