In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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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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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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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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In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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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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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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