You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
AIMEE BENDER
I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you’re alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you’re that important.
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It was like we were exchanging codes, on how to be a father and a daughter, like we’d read about it in a manual, translated from another language, and were doing our best with what we could understand.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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 don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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As soon as you laugh from nerves or make a joke or say something just to say something or get all involved with the bushes, then you blow open a window in your house of desire and it can’t heat up as well. Cold draft comes in.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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I am the drying meadow; you the unspoken apology; he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son.
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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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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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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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Language is the ticket to plot and character, after all, because both are built out of language.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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Large meadows are lovely for picnics and romping, but they are for the lighter feelings. Meadows do not make me want to write.
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