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fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.

fiction is necessary to life – not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.
– Siri Hustvedt

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  1. The advice is a call to empathy, the ultimate act of the imagination, and the true ground of all fiction. – Siri Hustvedt
  2. Are not dreams as much a part of living as waking life is? – Siri Hustvedt
  3. Dreams are stories made by and for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to untie. – Siri Hustvedt
  4. There is no time frame on living life, only the frame we place about ourselves to hinder our lives from living to its fullest. – NRN
  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. My purely practical advice: Don’t get excited. Don’t raise your voice. Bite back. Bite back hard, but never cry. – Siri Hustvedt
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself. – Siri Hustvedt
  19. Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious. – Siri Hustvedt
  20. Memory changes as a person matures. – Siri Hustvedt
  21. 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
  22. In this early memory he looks different from the way I would remember him later. – Siri Hustvedt
  23. Crippled and crazy, we hobble toward the finish line, pen in hand. – Siri Hustvedt
  24. Correlation is not cause, it is just a ‘music of chance’. – Siri Hustvedt
  25. Accumulated experience always alters perception of the past. – Siri Hustvedt
  26. 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
  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. There’s a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in. – 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. 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. Give me meaning, give me soul. Give my rapture, wild, a heart that is raw. Give me a mind that thinks for itself and imagines freely. – Atalina Wright
  34. The meaning of everything that occurs in your life is decided by the frame you put around it. – Mensah Oteh
  35. Siri, what is the meaning of life? She answers: To think about questions like this. Huh. Good one. – Kim Wright
  36. Ultimate meaning is meaningless. Meaning meaning means everything else. – Brian Spellman
  37. MASHA: Isn’t there some meaning?TOOZENBACH: Meaning? -¦ Look out there, it’s snowing. What’s the meaning of that? – Anton Chekhov
  38. Does a being who requires meaning find meaning in a universe that has no meaning? – Irvin D Yalom
  39. Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning. – Hans Kng
  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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