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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.

Alan Lightman

Just didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
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Book Close Come Exact Intend Novel Think
It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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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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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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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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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 have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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You say, “Something important really happened here. I really had hold of something I was visited by the muse.” And that’s enough to make you continue the months and years to finish the whole book.
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.

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