"I remember thinking how easy it is to……" — Siri Hustvedt
"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 hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before."
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Siri Hustvedt
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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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The cliché organizes life; it expropriates people's identity; it becomes ruler, defense lawyer, judge, and the law.
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The average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. The mental activity of such people is…
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The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing.…
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Mathematics is not a deductive science-that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the…
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What a story that would make! How many men and women go through the same rivers, menaced by the same…
— Richard Bach
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No one can write a best seller by trying to. He must write with complete sincerity; the clichés that make…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Beware of clichés. Not just the clichés that Martin Amis is at war with. There are clichés of response as…
— Geoff Dyer
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My commodity as a writer, whatever I'm writing about, is me. And your commodity is you. Don't alter your voice…
— William Zinsser
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Cliché openings in fantasy can include an opening scene set in a battle (and my peeve is that I don’t…
— Kristin Nelson
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You must be really bad, because it is a puzzle. Creating anything is hard. It’s a cliché thing to say,…
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
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Many forms, sizes and colors, I think there are heroes in sports, in life...It would be cliché to say my…
— George Eads
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One of the reasons why language is so sick right now and cliché-ridden and lame and boring and laid-out, and…
— Edward Dorn
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