I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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More Alan Lightman Quotes
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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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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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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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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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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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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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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