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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.

Alan Lightman

I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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E-mail First Friend Gone Hours Every Many Message Moring Spend Tell Through Too
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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Book Change Different Every Few Good Life Own Place Year
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
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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Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start
Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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Bet Irrational Rational Scientific Stop
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Authenticity Consciousness Essay Lift Sincerity
We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Always Become Disembodied Nowhere Somewhere
I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Correspondance Enough Some Stay Writer Written
Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something
We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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Bridge Ferry Island Really Service Spiritual Telephone
We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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Aside Connection Mind Reciprocity Relationship Strong Wall
And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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Build Embrace Frozen Go Kiss Let Lover Place See Shadow Stand
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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Happy Joy No One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Challenge Country Literature Love Material Publish Say Still

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