4 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt about expectations



  • Author Siri Hustvedt
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    It encapsulates so neatly the lesson of expectation and reality that it could serve as a parable. The fact that tomatoes are good is beside the point. If you think you're getting an apple, a tomato will revolt you. That New York should be nicknamed the Big Apple, that an apple is the fruit of humankind's first error and the expulsion from paradise, that America and paradise have been linked and confused ever since Europeans first hit its shores, makes the story reverberate as myth.

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  • Author Siri Hustvedt
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    If not violently overthrown, expectation can have a power in itself, can invest a place with what literally isn't there.

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