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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don’t make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I’m aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy Picture Quote #1

My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families Picture Quote #1

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness Picture Quote #1

When I don’t get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor Picture Quote #1

Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious Picture Quote #1

The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one driven by emotional forces, not only cognitive ones Picture Quote #1

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I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I’m doing and dream a little about this and that Picture Quote #1

Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow Picture Quote #1

I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides Picture Quote #1

Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective Picture Quote #1

If something’s not working, it’s wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, ‘Actually, you’ve gone off the deep end here’ Picture Quote #1

Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud’s death instinct Picture Quote #1

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Our great cultural error is to assume that ‘truth’ arrives only through reductive theories Picture Quote #1

I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense Picture Quote #1

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life’s unvarying diurnal rhythm Picture Quote #1

I saw Joseph Cornell’s lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes Picture Quote #1

With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career Picture Quote #1

Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as ‘chemical imbalances in the brain,’ as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person’s brain cause depression and anxiety Picture Quote #1

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American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me Picture Quote #1

Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The English expression ‘to fall asleep’ is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams Picture Quote #1

We sometimes imagine we want what we don’t really want Picture Quote #1

Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer Picture Quote #1

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Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors Picture Quote #1

Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting Picture Quote #1

Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on Picture Quote #1

Memory changes as a person matures Picture Quote #1

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember Picture Quote #1

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened Picture Quote #1

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My feeling is, when you are writing an essay, you don’t make anything up. This may be a very Protestant notion, and I’m aware of the fact that memory is fallible, that if I had access to films or some absolute documentary evidence of what happened, it might look different; we get confused and fuzzy. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) When I don’t get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) The computer model will be replaced by an organic model, in which the brain-mind is embodied - part of a whole, dynamic, living organism: one driven by emotional forces, not only cognitive ones. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I’m doing and dream a little about this and that. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) I love the little garden in the back of my family’s brownstone in Brooklyn. Digging out there in the dirt is a joy for me, although by the time August rolls around and my roses have black spot, I need the break winter provides. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Each person does see the world in a different way. There is not a single, unifying, objective truth. We’re all limited by our perspective. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) If something’s not working, it’s wonderful to have a reader you can trust to say, ‘Actually, you’ve gone off the deep end here’. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud’s death instinct. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Our great cultural error is to assume that ‘truth’ arrives only through reductive theories (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life’s unvarying diurnal rhythm. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) I saw Joseph Cornell’s lyrical work for the first time at the Museum of Modern Art in the late seventies and have internalized many of his boxes. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) With almost no exceptions, art by men is much more expensive than art by women. Even great women artists, like Louise Bourgeois and Lee Krasner, are only fully embraced very late in their career. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Both depression and anxiety disorders, for example, are repeatedly described in the media as ‘chemical imbalances in the brain,’ as if spontaneous neural events with no relation to anything outside a person’s brain cause depression and anxiety. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Most of us accept that although we may believe our dreams to be real events, upon waking, we can tell the difference between nocturnal hallucinations and reality (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) 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 (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) The English expression ‘to fall asleep’ is apt because the transition between waking and sleeping is a gradual drop from one state of being into another: a giving up of full self-consciousness for unconsciousness or for the altered consciousness of dreams. (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) We sometimes imagine we want what we don’t really want (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Memory changes as a person matures (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember (Siri Hustvedt Quotes) Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened (Siri Hustvedt Quotes)

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