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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

American - Novelist | February 19, 1955 -

Having children is one of the most passionate and involving bits of business in human life.

Life Business Children Passionate

The idea that skiing might not be fun, might not be for everyone, had never occurred to me. Where I come from, the sport signified pleasure, nature, family happiness.

Family Nature Happiness Fun Me

Nobody knows what either sleep or waking consciousness is, even though these two have long been seen as the two sides of being: part of life's unvarying diurnal rhythm.

Life Sleep Long Nobody Sides Rhythm

Rage has such focus. It can't go on forever, but it's invigorating.

Focus Go Rage Forever Invigorating

American mass media culture, with its celebrities, shopping hysteria, sound bites, formulaic plots, received ideas, and nauseating repetitions, depresses me.

Culture Me Ideas Shopping American

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

Present Language Place Relentless

When I don't get enough sleep, I am cranky, vulnerable to headaches, and my concentration is poor.

Sleep I Am Enough Poor Concentration

Sleep resistance, bouts of insomnia, nightmares, night terrors, crawling into bed with parents in the middle of the night - all these are so common among children, it seems fair to call them 'normal.'

Children Sleep Parents Night Bed

Only time will tell in what ways Freud was prescient and in what ways he failed to understand how the mind functions. For example, no scientist and very few psychoanalysts still embrace Freud's death instinct.

Time Death Mind Embrace Understand

I've come to understand that migraine is a part of the personality. I have migraine troughs. These often follow high productivity. I have a hypo-manic phase, then I'll crash.

Personality Understand Follow High

It's hard to penetrate characters who are very cut off and lack empathy and to do it with sympathy. It's so easy to make a damaged character repugnant.

Character Empathy Sympathy Easy Hard

I have not been diagnosed with epilepsy. I did have an MRI of the brain, and they found no abnormalities in my brain. Now, there are people with epilepsy who have completely normal MRI's, too. I just think also, you know, epileptic seizures can be triggered by emotional stress, by all kinds of things, lights.

Stress People Brain Think You Know

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