We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
ALAN LIGHTMANNo one ever expects poetry to sell…
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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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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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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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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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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