Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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We’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.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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My eyelids are my own private cave, he murmured. That I can go to anytime I want.
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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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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The writing I tend to think of as ‘good’ is good because it’s mysterious.
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