Siri Hustvedt

Chanakya Neeti - Eleventh Chapter , English Proverb , Manning Barish , Arabic Proverb , Chanakya Neeti - Third Chapter

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Creativity has always depended on openness and flexibility, so let us hope for more of both in the future.

Siri Hustvedt
creativity , always , depended
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Hysteria is something that I've been interested for a very long time. I thought I might have it, but it seems that it's unlikely.

Siri Hustvedt
hysteria , something , been
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I am convinced that during bouts of insomnia, I have sometimes slept without knowing it.

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

Siri Hustvedt
get , enough , vulnerable
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There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

Siri Hustvedt
reason , should , expect
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I was 13 when I had my first bout of insomnia. My family was in Reykjavik, Iceland, for the summer, and day never really became night.

Siri Hustvedt
had , first , family
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In sleep, we leave behind the sensory stimulation of the outside world.

Siri Hustvedt
leave , behind , sensory
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Sigmund Freud was very much a creature of his time. He did not 'invent' the unconscious.

Siri Hustvedt
freud , very , much
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I am not a physician, but I am deeply interested in diagnostic categories and have read extensively in the history of the subject.

Siri Hustvedt
deeply , interested , categories
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Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully.

Siri Hustvedt
children , position , assess
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None of us is immune to suggestion. We are social beings and live in a social world.

Siri Hustvedt
none , us , immune
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I have a tendency to face my bad fantasies in my books.

Siri Hustvedt
tendency , face , bad
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I love making up visual works of art in language. I get to be an artist without actually being an artist in that sense.

Siri Hustvedt
love , making , up
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People who grow up with two or more languages understand that each can express certain aspects of reality better than the other.

Siri Hustvedt
people , grow , up
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Novelists embody plural selves all the time. What are characters, after all, if not other selves?

Siri Hustvedt
novelists , embody , selves