Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
ALAN LIGHTMAN
The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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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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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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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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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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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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I consider myself an essayist and a fiction writer. In the essays, I certainly have been influenced by some of the leading science essayists. Like Loren Eiseley, Stephen Jay Gould, Lewis Thomas.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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