We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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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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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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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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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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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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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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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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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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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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