To that end, I believe that we should make room for both spiritual atheists and thinking believers.
ALAN LIGHTMANI love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination,
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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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Everyone shares the same fate.
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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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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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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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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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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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