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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.

Alan Lightman

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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Class Contemporary Craft Learn Literature Mist Student Try Useful Write
Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Alone Each Get Person Stuck Time
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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Baffle Constant Existence Mean Neuron Proud Search Temporary Three Trap
There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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Difference Important Lose Preserve Same Something
That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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Book Down Experience Happen Shor Someone Speak Strange
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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Actual Cosmo Irrational Perhaps Rational World
Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Different Direction Each Future Move Time
Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Brain Electrical More Surge
Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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Love Much Physical Thing
To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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Careful Over Point Take
As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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Belive Discover Ever Exist God Prove Religion Scientist
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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Belief Beneficial Consider Contradiction Faith Matter
Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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Book Close Come Exact Intend Novel Think
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Broot Look People Skip Time
A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Equality Month One Liner World

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