"I'm chasing a kind of language that can be unburdened by people's expectations. I think music is the primary model-how close can you get this language to be like music and communicate feeling at the base level in the same way a composition with no words communicates meaning? It might be impossible. Language is always burdened by thought. I'm just trying to get it so it can be like feeling."

-- Terrance Hayes

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“I always admired Wonder Woman and the Incredible Hulk - but I don't know if I'd be a very convincing hulk.”
“I've seen whales calving in the waters off Maui, and I've watched my children being born. But music is the most beautiful thing of all.”
“I am pretty happy. But there are so many things I have to still improve.”
“Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.”

Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.38, Macmillan
“I'm as moody and complex and private as anyone I ever knew.”
“Common sense is an instinct given to man and enough of it is genius. Smartness is measured by the level of common sense one has, not by how much educated or knowledgeable he is.”
“At the beginning of a remodel, money is everything, but as you go along, it becomes secondary to the vision. You can't have the house looking like a glorious jewel and leave the cracked linoleum or the icky light fixture, so you spend and spend and spend. Then one day it suddenly occurs to you that all that play money you've been throwing around is real - and it's in someone else's bank account.”
“The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed solitude, is an act of faith: it assumes the presence of humanity: world and self are generated from within: loneliness is courted, not feared. To write a letter is to be alone with my thoughts in the conjured presence of another person. I keep myself imaginative company. I occupy the empty room.”

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