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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.

Alan Lightman

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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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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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Body Mechanical Time World
Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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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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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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