Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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.
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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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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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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