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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

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
He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Back Hope Love Person Possible Return Want
I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Book Instead Read Should Write
Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Different Direction Each Future Move Time
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
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Essay Every Him Himself Matter Subject Ultimate
People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Content Contradictory Long People Reason World
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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Book Change Diagnosis Draft Significant Ten Through Whole Wholesale
If I were not a writer, I would spend more time doing the things that I am already doing, which include doing research in physics, teaching, and running a nonprofit organization with a mission to empower women in Cambodia.
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Already Doing Done Money More Spend Thing Time Water
As a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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Belive Discover Ever Exist God Prove Religion Scientist
The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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Happy Joy One Pain Stuck Time Tragedy World
I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Correspondance Enough Some Stay Writer Written
In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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Different Each Fiction Group Influence Several Stand Woven Write
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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Body Clock House Keep Mechanical Time Two World
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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Consciousness Interest Most Problem Science Unsolve

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