While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
ALAN LIGHTMANAuthenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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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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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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There 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.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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