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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.

Alan Lightman

I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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Cycle Life Listen Lot Osprey Spend Time Watch
That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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Anywhere Class Equal Good Excite Student Thing Wonderful Writer
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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Already Doing Done Money More Spend Thing Time Water
It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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Affect Culture Large Necessary Number People
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Aftre Begin Down Ecept Gof Sit Universe
You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own
When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
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.
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Been Country Leader People Think
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Broot Look People Skip Time
Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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Air Begin Breathe Central Existence Intelligent Like Passage Time
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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Author Fabulist Fiction Imagination Long Love People Such Write Time
Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Chaos Commitment Consider Contradictory Hold People Word
If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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Book Character Pilot Strangle
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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Artist Joyful Life Music Novel Paint Unpredictability World
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Impulse Sincerity World

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