Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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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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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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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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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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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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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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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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