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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.
Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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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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Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
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Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
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The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.
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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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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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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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Reading is a private pursuit one that takes place behind closed doors.
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Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
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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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I think because mothers usually are the people who take care of us when we're little, and when we're little those mothers are omnipotent, perhaps men even more than women don't like to think about that dependency. That dependency is horror.
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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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Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
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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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Bedtime rituals for children ease the way to the elsewhere of slumber - teeth brushing and pajamas, the voice of a parent reading, the feel and smell of the old blanket or toy, the nightlight glowing in a corner.
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
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Being a mother is complicated because its not just a paternal culture making demands on you its those internal demands and expectations that women have and are self-generated.
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