5 Quotes by Siri Hustvedt about language
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Our memory fragments don't have any coherence until they're imagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense.
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We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.
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Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
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I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichés, to steal a line from pulp fiction and let it fall. We can only hover around the inexpressible with our words anyway, and there is comfort in saying what we have heard before.
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That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.
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