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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.
Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
Novelist
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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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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