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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.

Alan Lightman

We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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Connect Dream Haunt Hope Thing Tiny Try Underneath Understand Whole World
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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Dull Habit Memory Only Passion Physical
Continents of memory had been lost.
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Been Continent Lost Memory
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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Draw Family Root Travel Work Writer
A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start
I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Fascinate Intersection Long Religion Science Time
When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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Game Golf Play Terrible Use
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
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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Blurry Faster Get Go Hold Move Really Reason Something Thing World
Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Different Direction Each Future Move Time
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Law Nature Order
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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End Fact Have Impersonal Live Product Scientist
We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Big Conscious Machine Not Now Part Plug
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Best Center Go Near Not Say Some Time
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Deal Know Speak Time Unable
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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April Back Came Enter Father Middle Mother Separate Vacation

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