I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
ALAN LIGHTMANThoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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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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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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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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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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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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