"There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true."

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Siri Hustvedt

#Writing Quotes #Assumption Quotes

“I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.”
“Now that copyrights can be just about a century long, the inability to know what is protected and what is not protected becomes a huge and obvious burden on the creative process.”

Source : Lawrence Lessig “Free Culture”, Lulu.com
“Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.”

Source : Paul Feyerabend (1993). “Against Method”, p.161, Verso
“Number, as it were, lies behind the psychic realm as a dynamic ordering principle, the primal element of which Jung called spirit. As an archetype, number becomes not only a psychic factor, but more generally, a world-structuring factor. In other words, numbers point to a background reality in which psyche and matter are no longer distinguishable.”

Source : "Psyche and Matter". Book by Marie-Louise von Franz, p. 2016, 1992.
“Jesus told his followers not to pray in the public square 'as the hypocrites' do, but rather 'enter into thy closet, and when thou has shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret,' Mr. DeLay not only wants to pray in public, he wants C-SPAN and the nightly news to cover it!”
“Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.”
“What I'd say about that is that we must respect homosexuals in the church. I've got many homosexual friends, the issue is not in any way a homophobic reaction on my part.”

Source : "Archbishop of Canterbury speaks out". "The Religion Report" with Stephen Crittenden, www.abc.net.au. September 25, 2002.
“Every woman knows that, regardless of all her other achievements, she is a failure if she is not beautiful.”

Source : "The Whole Woman". Book by Germaine Greer, 1999.

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