We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
ALAN LIGHTMANAnd 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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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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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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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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