There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
AIMEE BENDERA Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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I peeled the skin off a grape in slippery little triangles, and I understood then that I would be undressing every item of food I could because my clothes would be staying on.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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