In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
ALAN LIGHTMANI 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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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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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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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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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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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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