If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
ALAN LIGHTMANTornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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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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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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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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