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.
ALAN LIGHTMANIt is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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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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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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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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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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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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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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