Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
ALAN LIGHTMANThoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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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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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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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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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.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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