"I am not a physician, but I am……" — Siri Hustvedt
"I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject."
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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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More Categories Quotes
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Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories; those that don't work, those that break down and those…
— Russell Baker
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In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real…
— James Belushi
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I think there are going to be a bunch of tablet-like devices. It's really a different product category.
— Jeff Bezos
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Intelligence is a moral category.
— Theodor Adorno
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Modernity is a qualitative, not a chronological, category.
— Theodor Adorno
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I earned two Emmy nominations for writing, and two of the shows I had written were nominated for best in…
— Rita Mae Brown
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And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can…
— Dave Brubeck
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I'm very much into making lists and breaking things apart into categories.
— David Byrne
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I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have…
— Steve Carell
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I have two different categories of favorite films. One is the emotional favorites, which means these are generally films that…
— John Carpenter
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People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us…
— Jonathan Carroll
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In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
— Noam Chomsky
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