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None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.
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The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer at 13. Before that, I told everyone I was going to be an artist.
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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.
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Being alive is inexplicable, I thought. Consciousness itself is inexplicable. There is nothing ordinary in the world.
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Every mental state is also physical.
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I liked the streets as much as museums, and I spent hours in the city wandering around, inhaling the garbage.
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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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She meant that if your conscience holds you back, if it muddles the purity of your desire, if it gives you mixed feelings, don't do it.
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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.
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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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There are no rules in art.
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His sense of duty, honor, rectitude. What made me want to scream one day could make me proud the next.
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Insanity is a state of profound self-absorption.
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It is not that there is no difference between men and women; it is how much difference that difference makes, and how we choose to frame it.
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If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.
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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 is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined except as a form of repetition.
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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
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The brain is an immensely complex organ, and many mysteries remain. Exactly how brain and mind or soma and psyche are related is one of them.
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The page can resurrect what's lost and what's dead, what's not there anymore and what was never there.
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Memory changes as a person matures.
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Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.
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My purely practical advice: Don't get excited. Don't raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry.
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Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.
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The distance needed for humor is always missing from dreams.
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I published my first poem in 'The Paris Review' in 1980.
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I was happy without having sought happiness.
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Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
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nonsense can also be real
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No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.
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Although sometimes the morbid is also the transcendent, the transcendent cannot be reduced to the morbid.
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I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.
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I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.
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Only the unprotected self can feel joy.
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Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.
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the spectator is the true vanishing point
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Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.
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Forgetting," I said, "is probably as much a part of life as remembering. We're all amnesiacs.
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Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.
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The mind-brain is lived only from a first-person perspective, and it is a dynamic, plastic organ that changes in relation to the environment.
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Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.
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My greatest pleasure is spending time with my family: my husband and daughter, but also my mother, my three sisters, and their families.
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Mostly the same, but different in parts, mostly in those lower begetting and bearing parts? Or different in kind?
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I had no destination, just the will to go, and I went fast.
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There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.
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We sometimes imagine we want what we don't really want.
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We all live in a culture that is continually isolating feminine and masculine aspects, even when they're not related to people.
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Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.
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I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.
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...I often thought of our marriage as one long conversation.
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Chance had given me this small adventure and I was pleased.
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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.
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People can't help what they feel. It's what they do that counts
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Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
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Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.
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Widowers marry again because it makes their lives easier. Widows often don't, because it makes their lives harder. [p. 61]
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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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There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
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We had been pulled apart by absence, but that same absence had shackled us together for life.
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I was afraid of it, because I liked it. It excited me.
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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.
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Every time I finish a book, I say to an imaginary god that I do not believe in, 'Please let me live to write another one.'
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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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Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.
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When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.
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We cannot wish our worlds into being. Much depends on chance, on what we can't control, on others.
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When I spoke to her, I had the feeling that her thoughts had been nourished in wide-open spaces where talk was sparse and silence ruled.
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Fiction is not an escape from the world either. Imaginary experience is also experience. O
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We chart delusions through collective agreement.
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The brain-mind is not a computer, and regarding it as one has led to a variety of theoretical dead ends.
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It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!
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Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past.
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Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?
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I'm telling you there are many ways to live and many ways to love. I guess my way is more roundabout than most.
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People imagine that hope has degrees, but I think not. There is hope and there is no hope.
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Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.
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She sat in silence on a chair looking over him, content with the fullness of her own thoughts.
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The genius of women has always been easy to discount, suppress, or attribute to the nearest man. When
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It has taken me a very long time, a very long time to give myself permission to fly and breathe fire.
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I garden. It's very relaxing to me.
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