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.
AIMEE BENDERI don’t think so, I don’t agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
More Aimee Bender Quotes
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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That she might not actually know us seemed the humblest thing a mother could admit.
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Kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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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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Sometimes, she said, mostly to herself, I feel I do not know my children…
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It’s the mathematical logic of being alive.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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A Dorito asks nothing of you, which is its great gift. It only asks that you are not there.
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You’re the perfect girl’, he said, rubbing his chin. ‘You expect nothing.
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