The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
ALAN LIGHTMANAt every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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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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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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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.
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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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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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