1. “Men generally do not see women as competition.”
2. “Memory is essential to who we are, and memories can be both implicit and explicit – unconscious and conscious.”
3. “Dreams are stories made by for the dreamer, and each dreamer has his own folds to open and knots to tie.”
4. “Memory changes as person matures.”
5. “There is no future without a past, because what is to be cannot be imagined as a form of repetition.”
6. “Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.”
7. “We lose ourselves in stories: that’s the beauty of literary art.”
8. “Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.”
9. “Reading is a private pursuit; one that tkes place behind closed doors.”
10. “Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.”
11. “The old story is true: Women have to be less emotional than men.”
12. “Human beings are repetitive animals. All meanings is generated through repetition.”
13. “Demonstration of mastery gives a feeling of power and that feeling of power is a good feeling.”
14. “Reading is perception as translation. the inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.”
15. “Depression is when you think there’s nothing to be done. fortunately I always think there’s something to be done.”
16. “Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female and that is an act of suppression.”
17. “Every sickness has an alien quality, a feeling of invasion nd loss of control that is evident in the language we use about it.”
18. “We chart delusions through collective agreement.”
19. “We sometimes imagine we want what we don’t really want.”
20. “Pain is always emotional. Fear and depression keep constant company with chronic hurting.”
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