The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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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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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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