Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
ALAN LIGHTMANOriginality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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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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