The loved one will never take his arms from where they are now, will never give back the bracelet of memories, will never journey afar from his lover, will never place himself in danger of self-sacrifice.
ALAN LIGHTMANOne 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.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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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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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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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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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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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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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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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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