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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
Ruin
Ruins
Focus
Anything

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I was right at the edge of their circle, like the tail of a Q...
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It seemed to happen in springs, the revealing of things.
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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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To see someone you love, in a bad setting, is one of the great barometers of gratitude.
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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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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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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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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.
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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 hit the sidewalk, and dropped hands. How I wished, right then, that the whole world was a street.
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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 watched as she added a question mark at the end. Arc, line, space, dot.
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You try, you seem totally nuts, you go underground.
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Mom flipped through the magazines like the pages needed to be slapped.
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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.
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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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