I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
ALAN LIGHTMANI think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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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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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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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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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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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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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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