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From Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
- The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy.…
- Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under…
- I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only…
- Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
- The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal…
- The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand…
- When I taught writing classes to psychiatric patients, I met people whose stories of manic highs and immobilizing lows appeared to be textbook descriptions of…
- I have suffered from migraines since childhood and have long been curious about my own aching head, my dizziness, my divine lifting feelings, my sparklers…
- The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.
- The future is, of course, imaginary - an unreal place that I create from my expectations, which are made from my remembered experiences, especially repeated…
- The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified…
- Years ago, when I was in Siena for the first time, I saw the works of Duccio, whose deeply emotional painting from the thirteenth century…
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