I value my correspondence with writers…
ALAN LIGHTMANI wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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