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Siri Hustvedt has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
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I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of inner life…
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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day,…
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Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words,…
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The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its…
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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
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Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can…
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We chart delusions through collective agreement.
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and…
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat with a…
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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Beware that the one who reads is the same as the book, the same as what is read, the same as the…
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An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only.
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A businessman who reads Business Week is lost to fame. One who reads Proust is marked for greatness.
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For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived, for fiction, biography, and history…
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I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if…
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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is…
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Never hide your secrets from a person who can read ur eyes because, the one who reads your eyes is also expert…
— Xashif Shah
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Never hide ur secrets from a person who can read ur Eyez couse the one who reads ur Eyes is always expert…
— Ritu Ghatourey
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