Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe 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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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning.
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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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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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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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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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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