This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
AIMEE BENDERIt’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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The stories themselves haunt, they stick around, they linger, inhabiting a little corner of the reader’s brain and resurfacing to evoke mystery or sadness or longing.
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That at the same time of this very intimate act of concentrating so carefully on the details of our mother’s palm and fingertips.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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I have had with novel writing, and I have put to bed big chunks of work that just didn’t sustain my interest.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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