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Alan Lightman

An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Counterpoint Haunt Personal Powerful Unusual Written
If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Darkness Real Story Told
It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Impulse Sincerity World
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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Advice Alive All Aunt Come Die Generation Grandparent Great Infinite Offer Relative
The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Future Order Organisation Past Pattern Point
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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Anything Give Love People Return Unconditional Want
We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Big Conscious Machine Not Now Part Plug
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Best Center Go Near Not Say Some Time
And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Become Eventually Go Machine Mindless Unplug
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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Death Each Friend Future Part World
Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Book Complete Different Reader Sense Something Way
Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Book Challenge Film Go Make Quiet
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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Act Each Impulse Island Judge Own Rather Sincerity World
Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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Correspond Direction Future Horizontal Longitudinal Object Participate Perpendicular Vertical
Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Love Much Physical Thing
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Acausal Helpless Scientist World

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