"People who grow up with two or more……" — Siri Hustvedt
"People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other."
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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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I feel very uneasy with a lot of aspects of the Russian life and the Russian people.
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Your life is the sum result of all the choices you make, both consciously and unconsciously. If you can control…
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I think getting married gave me a focus. It gave me a focus and direction I want to have in…
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I am conscious of trying to stretch the boundaries of non-fiction writing. It's always surprised me how little attention many…
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What are the aspects of yourself that line up with the character? You magnify those, and the ones that don't…
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I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.
— Sarah Brightman
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Curiosity about life in all of its aspects, I think, is still the secret of great creative people.
— Leo Burnett
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Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There…
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Acting is always at the core of my life, but I'm also excited about producing. I'm excited about directing, and…
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I'm not geeky but I have my geeky, corky moments, and then I've got some aspects of cool in me,…
— Nick Cannon
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We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental…
— Alex Campbell
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My dad was rubbish at all other aspects of his financial life, but he's pretty good at paying the rent.
— Robert Carlyle
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