Everyone shares the same fate.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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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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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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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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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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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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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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