Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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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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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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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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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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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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