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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.

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
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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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Memory changes as a person matures.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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We lose ourselves in stories that's the beauty of literary art.
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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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Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.
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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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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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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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