Aimee Bender Quotes

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

Aimee Bender

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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.

Tamae Watanabe
- Fun
- Reason
- Marriage
Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.

Edgar Ramirez
- People
- Religion
- Fight
In truth, to know oneself seems to be the hardest of all things. Not only our eye, which observes external objects, does not use the sense of sight upon itself, but even our mind, which contemplates intently another's sin, is slow in the recognition of its own defects.

Saint Basil
- Mind
- Truth
- Eye
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

Gary Wolf
- Long
- May
- Think
I wonder now how tough you have to be to get big things done.

Walter Isaacson
- Done
- Wonder
- Tough
It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.

Ottmar Hitzfeld
- Career
- Finish
- Coach