That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: regret
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.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: love language cliché
Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion and loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: language illness sickness
It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: going-backward going-forward
Ture stories can't be told forward, only backward. We invent them from the vantage point of an ever-changing present and tell ourselves how they unfolded.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: present story storytelling memory
Worries about the power of a doctor's suggestions to influence and shape his patient's mind, whether they are made under hypnosis or not, are still with us.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: doctor patient diagnosis power-dynamic
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: consciousness memory
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.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: imagination past present memory
Dreaming is another form of thinking, more concrete, more economical, more visual, and often more emotional than the thoughts of the day, but a thinking through of the day, nevertheless.
Siri HustvedtStichwörter: thinking dreams dreaming
Memory changes as a person matures.
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