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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.

Alan Lightman

Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Anything Cloud Evaporate Ocean Pure Rain Replenishing
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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Inside Out Thing Total Understand Universe
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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Complementary Humanistic Look Scientific Think Way World
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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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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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Carefully Extremely Fiction Handle Idea Write
My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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