You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
ALAN LIGHTMANHe hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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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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