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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

Aimee Bender

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Aimee Bender
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: June 28
Novelist
Writer
the United States of America
Anything
Ruin
Ruins
Focus

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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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You're the perfect girl', he said, rubbing his chin. 'You expect nothing.
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I watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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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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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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As a writer you ask yourself to dream while awake.
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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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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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We hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.
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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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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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My lover is experiencing reverse evolution.
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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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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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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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Mom loved my brother more. Not that she didn't love me - I felt the wash of her love every day, pouring over me, but it was a different kind, siphoned from a different, and tamer, body of water. I was her darling daughter Joseph was her it.
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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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