As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
ALAN LIGHTMAN
The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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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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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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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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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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