I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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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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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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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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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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“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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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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