Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
I believe that we need to slow down.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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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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And 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.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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