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Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is?

Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is?
– Siri Hustvedt

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  1. fiction is necessary to life – not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning. – Siri Hustvedt
  2. Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. – Siri Hustvedt
  3. Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows. – Alice Hoffman
  4. If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. – Ren Magritte
  5. 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
  6. Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn’t there, and that creative invention becomes the book. – Siri Hustvedt
  7. Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting. – Siri Hustvedt
  8. Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on. – Siri Hustvedt
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. The history of art is full of women lying around naked for ?????c consumption by men. – Siri Hustvedt
  12. 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
  13. Only the unprotected self can feel joy. – Siri Hustvedt
  14. 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
  15. The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction. – Siri Hustvedt
  16. My purely practical advice: Don’t get excited. Don’t raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. – Siri Hustvedt
  17. 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
  18. 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
  19. No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself. – Siri Hustvedt
  20. Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious. – Siri Hustvedt
  21. Memory changes as a person matures. – Siri Hustvedt
  22. 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
  23. In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later. – Siri Hustvedt
  24. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. – Siri Hustvedt
  25. Correlation is not cause, it is just a ‘music of chance’. – Siri Hustvedt
  26. Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past. – Siri Hustvedt
  27. 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
  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. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  30. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – Siri Hustvedt
  31. Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others. – Siri Hustvedt
  32. 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
  33. The stories and pictures I make for the lives of the people closest to me are the forms of my empathy. – Siri Hustvedt
  34. Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself. – Reymond Page
  35. I think that dying is the easy part of life; for in waking each day and living in every moment, therein lies the challenge – Jeremy Aldana
  36. The worst type of man behaves as badly in his waking life as some men do in their dreams. – Plato
  37. Life is not about living the safer option. Life is about living a life worth living. – Robert Thier
  38. The answer is dreams. Dreaming on and on. Entering the world of dreams and never coming out. Living in dreams for the rest of time. – Haruki Murakami
  39. Someone who dreams cannot be forced to stop-”there are no limitations to dreams, because we do not own dreams, dreams are from God. – Christina Westover
  40. Do not give your most cherish dreams.Dreams are scriptures.Dreams are possibilities.Dreams always come true. – Lailah Gifty Akita

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