Quote by

There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.

There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in.
– Siri Hustvedt

Related Quotes:

  1. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  2. The history of art is full of women lying around naked for ?????c consumption by men. – Siri Hustvedt
  3. You want to know what I want? I’m sick of being a guinea pig. I’m sick, but I’m never f*cking sick enough for this family. – Jodi Picoult
  4. 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. – Siri Hustvedt
  5. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
  6. Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. – Siri Hustvedt
  7. Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. – Siri Hustvedt
  8. Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. – Siri Hustvedt
  9. Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is? – Siri Hustvedt
  10. fiction is necessary to life – not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning. – Siri Hustvedt
  11. 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
  12. Artists are cannibals. We consume other artists, and they become part of us-”flesh and bone-”only to be spewed out again in our own works. – Siri Hustvedt
  13. We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone’s eye, we look into a mind. – Siri Hustvedt
  14. Only the unprotected self can feel joy. – Siri Hustvedt
  15. The fictive is an emormous territory it turns out, its boundaries vague, and there is little certainty about where it begins and ends. – Siri Hustvedt
  16. The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction. – Siri Hustvedt
  17. My purely practical advice: Don’t get excited. Don’t raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. – Siri Hustvedt
  18. 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
  19. Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it’s not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable. – Siri Hustvedt
  20. No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself. – Siri Hustvedt
  21. Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious. – Siri Hustvedt
  22. Memory changes as a person matures. – Siri Hustvedt
  23. What she remembered is undoubtedly something so radically different from the image I gave to her memory that the two may be incompatible. – Siri Hustvedt
  24. In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later. – Siri Hustvedt
  25. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. – Siri Hustvedt
  26. Correlation is not cause, it is just a ‘music of chance’. – Siri Hustvedt
  27. Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past. – Siri Hustvedt
  28. Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. – Siri Hustvedt
  29. Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it. – Siri Hustvedt
  30. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others. – Siri Hustvedt
  31. 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
  32. The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy. – Siri Hustvedt
  33. Quality depends on kindness. Beauty depends on simplicity. Joy depends on generosity. – Debasish Mridha
  34. The soul of our civilization depends upon the civilization of our soul. The imagination of our culture calls for a culture of the imagination. – James Hillman
  35. A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking. – Michael R LeGault
  36. Your temperament can drive people away from you and then you live a regrettable life – Israelmore Ayivor
  37. A people are as healthy and confident as the stories they tell themselves. Sick storytellers can make nations sick. – Ben Okri
  38. There’s only one thing worse than being sick…and that’s being sick and poor. – Lou Silluzio
  39. I’ve had a lot of lieutenants over the years, and all the good ones were sick, sick individuals. You might be the best one yet. – Henry V ONeil
  40. Till we recognize what’s sick and messed up about ourselves this world is gonna stay sick and messed up. – Lacey Sturm

More Quotes

, , , , , ,