In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
ALAN LIGHTMANIlluminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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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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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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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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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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I believe that we need to slow down.
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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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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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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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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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