We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
ALAN LIGHTMANSuch is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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