Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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More Alan Lightman Quotes
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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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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A person who cannot imagine the future is a person who cannot contemplate the results of his actions. Some are thus paralyzed into inaction.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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