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That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.
Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie.
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A book is a collaboration between the one who reads and what is read and, at its best, that coming together is a love story like any other.
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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.
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It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without a single woman mentioned.
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No matter how brilliant or accomplished they are, there is something emasculating for men in being pitted against a woman. It is even more true in creative fields already considered to be squishy and feminine, and it's a big problem because great women have been left off the record.
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Not telling is just as interesting as telling I have found. Why speech, that short verbal journey from inside to outside can be excrutiating under certain circumstances is fascinating.
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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.
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Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
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Intellectual curiosity about one's own illness is certainly born of a desire for mastery. If I couldn't cure myself, perhaps I could at least begin to understand myself.
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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.
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We lose ourselves in stories that's the beauty of literary art.
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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
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In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
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