I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
ALAN LIGHTMANIs anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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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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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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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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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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