Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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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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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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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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