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.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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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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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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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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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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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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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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