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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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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Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
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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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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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We lose ourselves in stories that's the beauty of literary art.
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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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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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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
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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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All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.
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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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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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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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