The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
ALAN LIGHTMANMy writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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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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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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