A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
ALAN LIGHTMANThere are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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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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“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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