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 HustvedtMots clés 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 HustvedtMots clés 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 HustvedtMots clés language illness sickness
It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.
Siri HustvedtMots clés 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 HustvedtMots clés 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 HustvedtMots clés doctor patient diagnosis power-dynamic
Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit - unconscious and conscious.
Siri HustvedtMots clés 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 HustvedtMots clés 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 HustvedtMots clés thinking dreams dreaming
Memory changes as a person matures.
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