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Siri Hustvedt is an American novelist born on February 19, 1955. Her works are known for their deep psychological insights and exploration of female experiences. Hustvedt's novels often blend philosophy, literature, and psychology, showcasing complex characters and inner worlds.

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“We acquire the feelings of others, especially beloved others, and imagine that what we have never seen or touched belongs to us, too, by imaginative connection.”

Relationships Memories Family

Book:Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

Source: Mothers, Fathers, and Others: Essays

“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.”

Humans Looks Persons Stills Character Artist Order Individual Memories Simple Behinds Effects Painting Depends Response Who We Are Simple Truths

Book:Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

Source: Mysteries of the Rectangle: Essays on Painting

“Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.”

Memories Consciousness Essentials Conscious Who We Are Unconscious Explicit Implicit

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“Memory changes as a person matures.”

Persons Memories

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“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.”

Hands Past Imagination Memories Degrees Built Faculty Hand In Hand

Book:The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

Source: The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves

“Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.”

Language Memories Property Fragments Tense Our Memories Coherence Syntax

Author:Siri Hustvedt

“Memory offers up its gifts only when jogged by something in the present. It isn't a storehouse of fixed images and words, but a dynamic associative network in the brain that is never quiet and is subject to revision each time we retrieve an old picture or old words.”

Memories Brain Subjects Offers Quiet Fixed Revision Old Picture

Book:The Sorrows of an American: A Novel

Source: The Sorrows of an American: A Novel

“The recollections of an older man are different from those of a younger man. What seemed vital at forty may lose its significance at seventy. We manufacture stories, after all, from the fleeting sensory material that bombards us at every instant, a fragmented series of pictures, conversations, odors, and the touch of things and people. We delete most of it to live with some semblance of order, and the reshuffling of memory goes on until we die.”

About the Author

Born: February 19, 1955
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 105

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