And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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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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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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