They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
ALAN LIGHTMANAfter a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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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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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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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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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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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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