In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
ALAN LIGHTMANScience is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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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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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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