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Siri Hustvedt Quotes

It is tempting to think of this form of insomnia, the inability to fall asleep, as a disease of agency and control: the inability to relinquish high self-reflexive consciousness for the vulnerable, ignorant regions of slumber in which we know not what we do.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Control Think Fall Know Ignorant

There's so much more important parts other than pole vaulting.

Important More Than Much Pole Parts

I think that people should be paying a lot more attention to other issues, rather than who's the top 10 this or... who's the sexiest or the most beautiful.

Beautiful People Think Attention Top

The Republican game is hilariously transparent: if Obama doesn't shift to more muscular postures, he's not a patriot. If he does, he's a flip-flopper.

Game Patriot More Republican Shift

My favourite thing about being in nature is that I feel so small and kind of insignificant.

Nature Small Feel Kind Insignificant

I'm capable of a ton of work. My Kirby gene has been fully activated. And by that, I mean the capability to draw many pages.

Work Mean Capable Been Capability

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Long You Lived Well How Main

I was born in a blender.

Born I Was Born Blender

I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be true to him. I always say 'him' rather than 'her.' Maybe it's because of my generation, but I don't like the idea of a female God. I see God as a benevolent male.

Love God Hate Religion Think You

What we have in Mexico and Latin America is a wide diversity of voices, but in Mexico, for example, we haven't been able to get a lot of the movies into theaters.

Diversity America Movies Mexico Get

Everybody has some kind of addiction. It's about how you get around that addiction. First, you have to break the habit like anything. You have to define the hurdle or the objective.

Diamond Dallas Page

Habit You Kind Addiction First Get

There is no fundamental social change by being simply of individual and interpersonal actions. You have to have organizations and institutions that make a fundamental difference.

Change You Social Change Difference

I came to New York, and it was fascinating and intimidating and yielding, and all the stuff it's supposed to be. But whatever the abstract essence I was seeking, I couldn't find exactly that.

Richard Greenberg

New York Find New Whatever Abstract

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