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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

I enjoy domestic life. Cooking gives me great pleasure, especially if I can chop vegetables slowly and think about what I'm doing and dream a little about this and that.

Siri Hustvedt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: February 19, 1955

Topics

Life Great Cooking Me Think Doing

Nobody wants a unitary voice of authority any more.

Jill Abramson

Voice Nobody Authority More Wants

The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.

Joel A. Barker

Future Past Will Tell Successful

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

Steve Buyer

Age Great Depression Best Struggle

The weirder the better for me.

Sia

Me Better Weirder

Depending on how you farm, your farm is either sequestering or releasing carbon.

Michael Pollan

Farm You Carbon Your Either How

Lars Ulrich, he was my hero growing up. I wanted to be like him. I played the drums.

Derek Cianfrance

Hero Growing Up Growing Him Up Like

Sometimes what we call tragedy, at least in the theater, are really case histories. They're based on the central figure, and things happen to that person, and they're called tragedy because they're extremely sad. But tragedy always has a glorious thing happen at the end of it. That's what the catharsis is.

Derek Walcott

Sad End Tragedy Things Happen Person

I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

Bob Kane

Time Write Same Literally Strip

My mother had a sewing machine. I was never allowed to use it, but I was so fascinated by this little needle going up and down joining fabric together that I'd use it when my mother went out to feed the chickens.

Philip Treacy

Mother Together Down Sewing Never

Saddam Hussein was not an Islamist. He's not a radical jihadist. He's not a radical Muslim. I mean, he was a - he was a Baathist. He was a secular - even though he professed to be a good and devout Muslim.

Rick Santorum

Good Mean Radical Muslim Even He

If I was writing about an academic or a more difficult person, I would use the Latinate vocabulary more, but I do think Anglo-saxon is the language of emotion.

Lydia Davis

Writing Think Language Person More

I have always wanted to learn the piano, but because I travel so much, I can never get any consistency of lessons. So everywhere I go, if I can find a piano, even if it is in the lobby of a hotel or something, I go on YouTube and pick some songs to learn.

Lewis Hamilton

Travel Consistency Learn Hotel Find