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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.

Alan Lightman

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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Connect Enormous Grateful Humble Kafka Way
If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Ambition Duffer Hold Person Unknowingly
Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Chaos Commitment Consider Contradictory Hold People Word
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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Disturb Everything Faster Happen Less Quiet World
They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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Butterfly Case Contentment Eternity Even Fix Frozen
To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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Atheist Belief Both End Room Spiritual Think
Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Book Challenge Film Go Make Quiet
Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Clarity Right See Wrong
I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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Down Emotion Move Musical Piano Something World Wrestling
I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Correspondance Enough Some Stay Writer Written
So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Feel Hard Life Month Really Silence Two
In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Beyond Cliff Future Hang Laugh Nothingness Present
If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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Character Creation Fiction Infrared Tell Think Wonderful
I have a number of vague ideas where I just have the core or kernel of the idea. I feel like I need some time for my mind to fill up again. I feel empty. Right now.
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Core Idea Kernel Number Vague
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Aftre Begin Down Ecept Gof Sit Universe
A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Automobile Bicycle Buy Happy Life Nothing Own Sensation Suddenly Wealthy Wear

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