"I want to be violated by insight."

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Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.15, Anchor

Aimee Bender

#Want Quotes #Insight Quotes

“By starving our children of men, we have made them more vulnerable to the very abuse we are trying to prevent.”
“A proper record shop reminds us why we got into this in the first place - a place to be reminded of old friends, still in their spots on the shelves, a source of unexpected magic and lucid memories - a place that reminds us that music is more than dumb file sharing and the management of dead data by faceless sociopathic corporations, but a storehouse of dreams, both possible and impossible.”
“There is something about a closet that makes a skeleton terribly restless.”
“The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.”
“Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.”
“I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.”
“I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.”
“If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.”

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