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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?

Alan Lightman

Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Compare Condition Consider Human Being Other Satisfy
So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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Amount Little Live Many Nothing So
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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Build Embrace Frozen Go Kiss Let Lover Place See Shadow Stand
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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Give Little Love Other Return Selfish Want
The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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Book Creative Finish Good Let Novel Participate Raeder
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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Desert Footprint Man Occasion One Someone Something Then Writer
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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E-mail Everything Fast Faster Food Goten Mentality Representative Think
We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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Aside Connection Mind Reciprocity Relationship Strong Wall
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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Disparate Essay Guide Important Pick Power Say Seemingly Thought
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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Alone Everyone Tragedy World
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Highly Live Need Polarized Respectful Society Try Understand Way
And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Book Course Depend Done Frighten Make Previous
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Another Strand Idea Importance Write
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Down Emotion Move Musical Piano Something World Wrestling
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Book Complete Different Reader Sense Something Way

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