"There is no future without a past, because……" — Siri Hustvedt

"There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition."

— Siri Hustvedt

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92 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt

Siri Hustvedt has 92 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
I've often thought that one of us is what we imagine, that each of us normalizes the terrible strangeness of…
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of…
Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images…
The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may…
Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to…
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it…
The logic: Reading is a private pursuit, one that often takes place behind closed doors. A young lady might retreat…
Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

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No one is to be called an enemy, all are your benefactors, and no one does you harm. You have… — Francis of Assisi
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist… — Saint Augustine
There is no possible source of evil except good. — Saint Augustine
Money is like manure, of very little use except it be spread. — Francis Bacon
We cannot command Nature except by obeying her. — Francis Bacon
Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much… — Francis Bacon
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
I don't like any sport except boxing and bull fighting. — David Bailey
Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism. — Russell Baker
It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes… — Russell Baker

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