There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
ALAN LIGHTMANEvery reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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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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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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