Our memory fragments dont have any coherence until theyre imagined in words. Time is a property of language of syntax and tense.
Siri Hustvedt
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True stories cant be told forward only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an everchanging present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
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I remember thinking how easy it is to speak in clichs 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.
- Siri Hustvedt