I believe that we need to slow down.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe often do not see what we do not expect to see.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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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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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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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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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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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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