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.
AIMEE BENDERWhile she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It’s nourishing; it’s rejuvenating.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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I admired that stride; it was like he folded space in two with it.
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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave.
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There’s a gift in your lap and it’s beautifully wrapped and it’s not your birthday.
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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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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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