Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
AIMEE BENDERI was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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He was also removing all traces of any tiny leftover parts, and suddenly a ritual which I’d always found incestuous and gross seemed to me more like a desperate act on Joseph’s part to get out, to leave, to extract every little last remnant and bring it into open air.
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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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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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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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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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