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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.

Alan Lightman

Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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Book Close Come Exact Intend Novel Think
I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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Couple Family Good Time Hobby Know Take Time Very Well
I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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Dead Microscopic Question Stop Universe
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Always Book Film Long Made Think
I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own
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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Continent Disagree Eternal Fix Frozen Life
Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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Anything Give Love People Return Unconditional Want
If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Ambition Hold Know Person Slowly Suffer
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Artist Joyful Life Music Novel Paint Unpredictability World
The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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Action Contemplate Future Imagine Person Result
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Challenge Country Literature Love Material Publish Say Still
An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Counterpoint Haunt Personal Powerful Unusual Written
The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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Along Bluefish Make Mind Predetrmine Second Squirm Unyield Wriggle

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