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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.
Siri Hustvedt
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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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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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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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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
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Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
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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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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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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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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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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 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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