"Widowers marry again because it makes their lives……" — Siri Hustvedt

"Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]"

— 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…
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'.
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

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People can cry much easier than they can change. — James A. Baldwin
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It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to… — Honore de Balzac
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