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 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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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q…
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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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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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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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Listen. Look. Desire is a house. Desire needs closed space. Desire runs out of doors or windows, or slats or pinpricks, it can’t fit under the sky, too large. Close the doors. Close the windows.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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Glen Hirshberg’s stories are haunting, absolutely, but not only because of the content.
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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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It’s such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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That’s the thing with handmade items. They still have the person’s mark on them, and when you hold them, you feel less alone.
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This is why everyone who eats a Whopper leaves a little more depressed than they were when they came in. Nobody cooked that burger.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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Not getting bored of my own story and/or character is one of the main struggles.
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