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.
ALAN LIGHTMANI’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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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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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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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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