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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

Alan Lightman

In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Artist Joyful Life Music Novel Paint Unpredictability World
Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Community Lose Overstate Word Writer
An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Counterpoint Haunt Personal Powerful Unusual Written
The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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Author Great Heritage Idea Paint Science
Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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Image Imagine Nom Time World
All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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Belief Beneficial Consider Contradiction Faith Matter
I believe that we need to slow down.
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Believe Down Need Slow
The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Interest More Power Quantity Target
Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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Anything Love Person Possible Pure Want
If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Darkness Real Story Told
I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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Opposition Technology Thing Think Use Wonderful
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
That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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Artistic Balance Character Control Fiction Fine Freedom Maintain Surprise Writer
Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Complex Cream Discuss Issue President Subtleties
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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Game Golf Play Terrible Use
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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Alone Everyone Tragedy World

It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.

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