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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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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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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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Reading is a private pursuit one that takes place behind closed doors.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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