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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.
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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Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
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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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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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Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
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Reading is a private pursuit one that takes place behind closed doors.
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That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.
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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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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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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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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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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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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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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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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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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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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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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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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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