To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
AIMEE BENDERNot getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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It seems the best work I do is when I am really allowing the unconscious to rule the page and then later I can go back and hack around and make sense of things.
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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think?
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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn’t love me – I felt the wash of her love every day.
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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me,
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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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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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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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Before she knew it was candles, did she think she’d done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips.
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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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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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The most so far, because she found the saddest thing of all to be the simple truth of her capacity to move on.
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It’s a pleasure to dive into Hirshberg’s storytelling skills in American Morons.
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