The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
ALAN LIGHTMANOur species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.
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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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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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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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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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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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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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