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.
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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