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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.

Alan Lightman

Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Dixxle Pace Proceed Technology
You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Always Book Film Long Made Think
One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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Bloodstream Book Day Deep Gom Got One Osprey Real Write
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
Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Earn Live Moment Most People
As long as God does not intervene in the contemporary universe in such a way as to violate physical laws, science has no way of knowing whether God exists or not.
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Contemporary Do Intervene God Know Law Long Physical Science Universe Violate Way
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Acausal Helpless Scientist World
I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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Atheist Consider Myself Spiritual
Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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Compare Condition Consider Human Being Other Satisfy
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Happy Joy One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
“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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Appointment Body Exist Morning Precisely Think
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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Consider Essayist Fiction Myself Writer

I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.

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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.

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