A world with one month is a world of equality.
ALAN LIGHTMANUnconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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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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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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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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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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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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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.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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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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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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