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.
ALAN LIGHTMANSons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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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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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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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 think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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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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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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