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I want to be violated by insight.

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Violated
Insight

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I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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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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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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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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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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I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
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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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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. 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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I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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The wine glasses are empty except for that one undrinkable red spot at the bottom.
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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
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But I loved George in part because he believed me because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
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