4 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt about expectations
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No doubt I would have felt reverent in less lovely places, because I imagined a past I connected to myself.
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This feeling of being "home at last" corresponds to my idea about the city, and idea shaped by books, movies, and plays, an idea of infinite possibility.
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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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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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