In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared.
ALAN LIGHTMANI love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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I go to live in Maine for the summer. Without computer, and without the telephone service we are mercifully without the faxes and e-mails.
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In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,
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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 still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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The relationship between science and the humanities is two-way. Science changes our view of the world and our place in it. In the other direction, the humanities provide the store of ideas and images and language available to us in understanding the world.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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