The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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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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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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