In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
ALAN LIGHTMANAnd 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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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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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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