Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
You 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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Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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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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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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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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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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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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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
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What I am very disturbed about is this trend of everything happening faster and faster and faster and there being more and more general noise in the world, and less and less time for quiet reflection on who we are, and where we’re going.
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