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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.

Alan Lightman

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Ambition Duffer Hold Person Unknowingly
Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Another Strand Idea Importance Write
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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Book Character Pilot Strangle
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
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
Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Bet Irrational Rational Scientific Stop
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
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
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Law Nature Order
When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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Game Golf Play Terrible Use
I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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Compare Country Food Like Lunch Note Really Someone
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
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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Curiosity Fundamental Intellectual Journey Place Think
For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Back Brood Doubt Look Movement People Predictable
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

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