Continents of memory had been lost.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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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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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.
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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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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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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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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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