The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
ALAN LIGHTMANThere is a place where time stands still.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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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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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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