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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.

Alan Lightman

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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Autumn Day Life Moment One Season Snowfall
So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Feel Hard Life Month Really Silence Two
Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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Image Imagine Nom Time World
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Book Complete Different Reader Sense Something Way
That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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Achievement Age Fact Flood Great Image Megabit Planet So Throughout
In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Each Moment Music World
There is a place where time stands still.
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Place Stand Still Time
The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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Document Explode Held Immortality Mentioned Slight
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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Book Character Pilot Strangle
There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Ay Cultural Different Diversity Look Valuable World
I’m still happy with the way Einstein’s Dreams came out. That book came out of a single inspiration. I really felt like I was not creating the words, that I was hearing the words.
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Book Came Dream Happy Inspiration Out Person Single Still Way
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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Human Imagination Machine Match Mind Since Technology Unlikely
It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Affect Culture Large Necessary Number People
I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Always Form Magic Realism Write
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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Back Bring Good Least Magic Next One Some Time
Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Authenticity Consciousness Essay Lift Sincerity

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