If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
ALAN LIGHTMANOrder 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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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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