"Every painting is always two paintings: The one……" — Siri Hustvedt
"Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember."
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92 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt
Siri Hustvedt has 92 quotes on this site.
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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…
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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of…
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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…
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The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may…
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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…
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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…
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The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat…
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.
— Ansel Adams
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Microsoft is always two years away from failure.
— Bill Gates
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We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides…
— Unknown Author
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There are always two or three or four sides to every story.
— Denise Richards
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There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or…
— Charles Baudelaire
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In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's…
— Barack Obama
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You can find examples of how little we value ourselves everywhere you look. The signs on the front of the…
— Bernie Siegel
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In solitude a dialogue always arises, because even in solitude there are always two.
— Hannah
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Someone observed darkly that it is always two A.M. when one is in the 'dark night of the soul.
— Robert A. Johnson
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When two people loved each other they worked together always, two against the world, a little company. Joy was shared;…
— Paul Gallico
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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into…
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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