I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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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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You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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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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