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.
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition. - Siri Hustvedt
There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
- Siri Hustvedt
I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always crac… - Siri Hustvedt
I've always thought of wholeness and integration as necessary myths. We're gragmented beings who cement ourselves together, but there are always crac…
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 not… - Siri Hustvedt
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 not…
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. - Siri Hustvedt
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art. - Siri Hustvedt
We lose ourselves in stories; that's the beauty of literary art.
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart. - Siri Hustvedt
Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened. - Siri Hustvedt
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here i… - Siri Hustvedt
Our brain and our whole nervous system and our whole body are only created in relation to other people and to the environment. So what we have here i…
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember. - Siri Hustvedt
Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.
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