While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
ALAN LIGHTMANAnd since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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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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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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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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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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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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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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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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