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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.
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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There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
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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 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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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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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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Memory changes as a person matures.
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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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Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her? What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?
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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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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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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
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We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
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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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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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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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We lose ourselves in stories that's the beauty of literary art.
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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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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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