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None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.
— Siri Hustvedt
The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.
— Siri Hustvedt
I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.
— Siri Hustvedt
You don't give up at the beginning just because you're afraid of what might happen at the end. If it's worth it, then it's worth it,
— Siri Mitchell
Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world.
— Siri Hustvedt
I'm beginning to view democracy as the Siri of political systems. So much better in theory.
— Rob Thomas
Was a way of life that seemed to produce nothing of worth and yet consume everything of value.
— Siri Mitchell
We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.
— Siri Hustvedt
There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.
— Siri Hustvedt
It's odd the way life works, the way it mutates and wanders, the way one thing becomes another.
— Siri Hustvedt
I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.
— Siri Hustvedt
We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.
— Siri Hustvedt
I garden. It's very relaxing to me.
— Siri Hustvedt
It has taken me a very long time, a very long time to give myself permission to fly and breathe fire.
— Siri Hustvedt
But Siri knew the slow pace of books and the cadences of theater under the stars. I knew only the stars.
— Dan Simmons
The genius of women has always been easy to discount, suppress, or attribute to the nearest man. When
— Siri Hustvedt
She sat in silence on a chair looking over him, content with the fullness of her own thoughts.
— Siri Hustvedt
We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others.
— Siri Hustvedt
The bottle of red brush on a white table gleamed throughout the remaining years of my childhood as the sign of what was possible there.
— Siri Hustvedt
Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.
— Siri Hustvedt
Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.
— Siri Hustvedt
I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.
— Siri Hustvedt
There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
— Siri Hustvedt
It's almost too perfect - the poster girl for an illness in the early days of photography sees the world in black and white.
— Siri Hustvedt
Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
— Siri Hustvedt
People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts
— Siri Hustvedt
I am an American, but a sense of otherness was part of my growing up. I spoke Norwegian before I spoke English. My mother is Norwegian.
— Siri Hustvedt
I was afraid of it, because I liked it. It excited me.
— Siri Hustvedt
We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.
— Siri Hustvedt
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
— Siri Hustvedt
Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
— Siri Hustvedt
Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
— Siri Hustvedt
Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
— Siri Hustvedt
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
— Siri Hustvedt
I had no destination, just the will to go, and I went fast.
— Siri Hustvedt
I suppose Stanley fell in love with me during those talks about life and books, but he probably loved someone else, a person who wasn't me.
— Siri Hustvedt
Chance had given me this small adventure and I was pleased.
— Siri Hustvedt
But what they had achieved apart on the dance floors of the world was nothing compared to what they achieved together.
— Siri Mitchell
...I often thought of our marriage as one long conversation.
— Siri Hustvedt
