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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.

Alan Lightman

Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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Fall Instant Jealousy Love Passion Someone Time
I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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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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I would bet most people don’t have thirty minutes in a day where they can just sit down and think. Or maybe they don’t have to be sitting, they can be walking.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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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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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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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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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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 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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