And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
ALAN LIGHTMANEach person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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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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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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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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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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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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