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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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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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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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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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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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Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
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The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories.
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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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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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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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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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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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We lose ourselves in stories that's the beauty of literary art.
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