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We lose ourselves in stories that's the beauty of literary art.

Siri Hustvedt

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Siri Hustvedt
Age: 69
Born: 1955
Born: February 19
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
Literary
Lose
Loses
Beauty
Art
Stories

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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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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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I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
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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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Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
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Reading is a private pursuit one that takes place behind closed doors.
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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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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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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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Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
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In effect, painting is the still memory of [the artist's] human motion, and our individual responses to it depend on who we are, on our character, which underlines the simple truth that no person leaves himself behind in order to look at a painting.
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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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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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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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I think that it's important for people to read philosophy and literature is not because I think everyone should be a well-rounded human being, but because it will help you think better about what you are doing.
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Men generally do not see women as competition.
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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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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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