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That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.

Alan Lightman

I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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E-mail Everything Fast Faster Food Goten Mentality Representative Think
There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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Alpha Another Brain Clock Heart Mysterious Ruthless Tick Wave
What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Continue Future See Sense
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Being Belief Disbelief Faith Matter
A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Emotion Experience Good Imagination Novel Science Start
You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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Back Bring Good Least Magic Next One Some Time
Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Different Life Point Reader Singer Something
“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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Ambitious Book Diagnosis Far Great Hope Most
Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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Law Nature Order
One cannot walk down an avenue, converse with a friend, enter a building, browse beneath the sandstone arches of an old arcade without meeting an instrument of time.
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Arcade Instrument Arch Avenue Beneath Browse Build Converse Down Enter Friend Sandstone Time
Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
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Image Imagine Nom Time World
Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Best Center Go Near Not Say Some Time
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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Alone Everyone Tragedy World
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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Class Contemporary Craft Learn Literature Mist Student Try Useful Write
Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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Air Begin Breathe Central Existence Intelligent Like Passage Time
I have no opposition at all to technology. I think technology is a wonderful thing that has to be used thoughtfully, and we can’t just assume that every bit of new technology improvesthe quality of life; it’s really in how the technology is used.
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Opposition Technology Thing Think Use Wonderful

That’s an exciting thing. In a class of fifteen there are usually two very good writers, equal to good student writers anywhere in the country. Those two make the class wonderful.

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