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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
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Northfield
Minnesota
Premio princesa de Asturias 2019
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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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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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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Good books, written by men or women, are ones in which you lose consciousness of the person writing the sentences.
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Memory changes as a person matures.
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Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.
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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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Reading is a private pursuit one that takes place behind closed doors.
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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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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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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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Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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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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The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.
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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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All human states are organic brain states - happiness, sadness, fear, lust, dreaming, doing math problems and writing novels - and our brains are not static.
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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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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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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
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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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