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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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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
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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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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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There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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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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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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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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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends.
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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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