To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
ALAN LIGHTMANDespite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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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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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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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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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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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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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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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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