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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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 was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
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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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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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I am the drying meadow you the unspoken apology he is the fluctuating distance between mother and son she is the first gesture that creates a quiet that is full enough to make the baby sleep. My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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My genes, my love, are rubber bands and rope make yourself a structure you can live inside. Amen. — Aimee Bender (Willful Creatures: Stories)
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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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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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But what I kept wondering about is this: that first second when she felt her skirt burning, what did she think? Before she knew it was candles, did she think she'd done it herself? With the amazing turns of her hips, and the warmth of the music inside her, did she believe, for even one glorious second, that her passion had arrived?
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With my hand in his, I looked at all the apartment buildings with rushes of love, peering in the wide streetside windows that revealed living rooms painted in dark burgandies and matte reds.
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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.
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…kissing George was a little like rolling in caramel after spending years surviving off rice sticks.
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