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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

Alan Lightman

I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Appreciate Book Ideas Person Society
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.
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Book Father Journey Life Process Secret Tell Uncover Woman
I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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Dead Microscopic Question Stop Universe
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
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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Glance Meaning Moment Speak Spoken World
I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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Borge Distorted Highly Interest Magic Realistic Truth Word
I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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Disparate Essay Guide Important Pick Power Say Seemingly Thought
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Law Nature Order
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Cell How Live Metaphor One People Phone
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
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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Different Each Fiction Group Influence Several Stand Woven Write
Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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Destination Intellectual Journey Science
Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Book Challenge Film Go Make Quiet
Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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Love Much Physical Thing
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Acid Bit Cerebellum More Sadness Transfix

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

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