I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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