We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
ALAN LIGHTMANWhen they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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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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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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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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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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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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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.
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