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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)

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Live
Rope
Make
Genes
Love
Bands
Structure
Creatures
Bender
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Willful
Inside
Amen
Stories
Rubber

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I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
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Light is good company, when alone I took my comfort where I found it, and the warmest yellow bulb in the living-room lamp had become a kind of radiant babysitter all its own.
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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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I want to be violated by insight.
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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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I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.
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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. 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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It is all about numbers. It is all about sequence. It's the mathematical logic of being alive. If everything kept to its normal progression, we would live with the sadness-cry and then walk-but what really breaks us cleanest are the losses that happen out of order.
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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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When language is treated beautifully and interestingly, it can feel good for the body: It's nourishing it's rejuvenating.
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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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Many kids, it seemed, would find out that their parents were flawed, messed-up people later in life, and I didn't appreciate getting to know it all so strong and early.
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I felt the crumpled paper that had taken the place of my lungs expand as if released from a fist.
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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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While she cut the mushrooms, she cried more than she had at the grave, 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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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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