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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
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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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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Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
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Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because women make babies. I find the double standards shocking.
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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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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 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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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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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
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