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.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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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’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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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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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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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 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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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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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 book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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