I value my correspondence with writers…
ALAN LIGHTMANWriters read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
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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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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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