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.

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.
Siri Hustvedt

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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 Hustvedt
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Our memory fragments dont have any coherence until theyre imagined in words. Time is a property of language of syntax and tense.
- Siri Hustvedt

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. Siri Hustvedt

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.
Siri Hustvedt