They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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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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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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