"The faculty of memory cannot be separated from the imagination. They go hand in hand. To one degree or another, we all invent our personal pasts. And for most of us those pasts are built from emotionally colored memories."

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Source : Siri Hustvedt (2010). “The Shaking Woman or A History of My Nerves”, p.112, Macmillan

Siri Hustvedt

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“My God, give me neither poverty nor riches; but whatsoever it may be Thy will to give, give me with it a heart which knows humbly to acquiesce in what is Thy will.”

Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 161), 1895.
“I live a very normal life. I have friends, and I've always gone to school. The part that's not normal is that I've been working since I was 9 months old, but at the same time, it's completely normal to me.”
“One has to choose between engaging in stylistic research or the mere recording of facts. I feel that a filmmaker must go beyond the recording of facts. Moreover, I believe that Africans, in particular, must reinvent cinema. It will be a difficult task because our viewing audience is used to a specific film language, but a choice has to be made: either one is very popular and one talks to people in a simple and plain manner, or else one searches for an African film language that would exclude chattering and focus more on how to make use of visuals and sounds.”
“Sometimes you watch comedians and feel like they're jerking off in front of you, but they want you to see how big it is.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“I felt like Eartha Kitt. I'm serving fish, honey, and this ain't trout.”
“The idea of having new perspectives on our planet, and actually being able to get that message out, gets me out of bed every day with a spring in my step.”
“There are poisons that blind you, and poisons that open your eyes.”

Source : August Strindberg (1983). “Strindberg, Five Plays”, p.296, Univ of California Press
“Important reserves of natural resources, like petroleum and precious metals, are the bulwarks for laying the foundations for the future.”

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