I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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More Alan Lightman Quotes
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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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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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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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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The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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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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Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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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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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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