Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
ALAN LIGHTMANEvents, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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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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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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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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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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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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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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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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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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