"There is this assumption that much of what……" — Siri Hustvedt
"There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true."
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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 first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious.
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many…
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The bad-boy label is just an assumption.
— Russell Brand
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The worst mistake of first contact, made throughout history by individuals on both sides of every new encounter, has been…
— David Brin
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A fair trial is one in which the rules of evidence are honored, the accused has competent counsel, and the…
— Harry Browne
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I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the…
— Warren Buffett
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As I get older I think, contrary to modern assumption but in line with the old Lerner and Lowe song,…
— Julie Burchill
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History is malleable. A new cache of diaries can shed new light, and archeological evidence can challenge our popular assumptions.
— Ken Burns
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Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile,…
— Alan Alda
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The assumption is that your personal life has to be a mess to create, but how much chaos can you…
— David Byrne
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In the middle of the night, when you're ambiguously ethnic, like me, when you're brown, beige, mauve, siena, one of…
— Sherman Alexie
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The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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