Quotes by Aimee Bender

About Aimee Bender:

Aimee Bender is an American novelist and short story writer, known for her surreal plots and characters.
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The phone is about the same size as a cigarette pack. It's no surprise to me that the traditional cigarette lighter in many cars has turned into the space we use to recharge our phones. They are kin. The phone, like the cigarette, let's the texter/fo...

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And, sure, fine, I do check my phone about every two minutes, but so do a lot of people, and it's better than smoking, that's what I say. It's the new, lung-safe cigarette.

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You can't predict the outcome. You can't raise a child and then tell them what to think.

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Most teenage girls don't give old people the time of day which is sad because all old people do all the time is think about how nice it was to be a teenager so long ago.

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An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.

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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.

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And in it all, the sensation of shaking my fists at the sky, shaking my fists high up to the sky, because that is what we do when someone dies too early, too beautiful, too undervalued by the world, or sometimes just at all -- we shake our fists at t...

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We're like the couple on the sitcom that has good sparks but never get together for the sake of ratings.

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Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd hea...

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I just like the feeling of finding the right word in my mind and employing it. I get pleasure from that feeling. I prefer language to gesture. I figured other people might, too.

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It was ridiculous, at times, how many tears one body could produce.

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It is difficult to want to tell a grave that it is not immortal. It's so obvious at that point.

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Though loss did not pass from one person to another liker a baton; it just formed a bigger and bigger pool of carriers. And, she thought, scratching the coarseness of the horse's mane, it did not leave once lodged, did it, simply changed form and ask...

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In general, I call her every night, and we talk for an hour, which is forty-five minutes of me, and fifteen minutes of her stirring her tea, which she steeps with the kind of Zen patience that would make Buddhists sit up in envy and then breathe thro...

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That," she said, "is a little closer to how I imagine it works. Whether or not you pray has absolutely nothing to do with the person to your left. It's like saying you shouldn't get the moon in your window, or else the other cars wouldn't get the moo...

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I like to smile at the men who look mean so they know I believe in their better selves. That makes a difference in the world. This is how you might be able to reform a possible rapist without ever going to psychology school.

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But the sky is interesting, it changes all the time.

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He had set up a telescope on a corner of the roof, and we went up to take a look. This is time travel, he said, narrowing an eye to set the lens. Because the light is old. We're seeing back in time. No, we said, wrinkling our noses. We are seeing rig...

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You can ruin anything if you focus at it.

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With hand gestures, you can fill in a lot of gaps, and the words thing and stuff and -ness also help: patientness instead of patience, fastness instead of speed, honestness instead of honesty. With these choices, many words can be indicated, and poin...

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I give boring people something to discuss over corn.

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Author Bio

  • NameAimee Bender
  • DescriptionNovelist, short story writer
  • BornJune 28, 1969
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionWriter; Novelist