Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
ALAN LIGHTMANWill never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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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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I value my correspondence with writers…
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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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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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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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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