sorrowful quotes
Posted by Gordon on September 13, 2009
[an unfinished thought from some time ago]
Siri Hustvedt is one of those writers who sprinkle challenging aphorisms through her novels, rather like Shirley Hazzard, although Hustvedt’s prose is less intensely crafted than Hazzard’s, and she seems to have more trouble avoiding the trite (perhaps at times this triteness is her characters?)
‘People like me don’t go in for salvation. Crippled and crazy we hobble towards the finish line, pen in hand.’ 45
‘.. the way we organized perceptions into stories with beginnings, middles and ends, how our memory fragments don’t have any coherence until they’re reimagined in words. Time is a property of language, of syntax, and tense,’ 47
