I value my correspondence with writers…
ALAN LIGHTMANSons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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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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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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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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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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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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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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