A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
ALAN LIGHTMANYou make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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That someone else was speaking the words to me and I was just writing them down. It was a very strange experience. That can happen with a short book. I don’t think it could happen with a long book.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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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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Each 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.
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When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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