I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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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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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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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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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.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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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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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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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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