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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.

Alan Lightman

The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Go Move Sister We Where World
Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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Fall Instant Jealousy Love Passion Someone Time
In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Dimension Space Three Time World
I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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Complementary Humanistic Look Scientific Think Way World
You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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Breathe Character Idea Just Live Mouthpiece Own
The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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Document Explode Held Immortality Mentioned Slight
Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
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Actual Cosmo Irrational Perhaps Rational World
You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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Beauty Feel Grand Grander Harmony Something
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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Inside Out Thing Total Understand Universe
Everyone shares the same fate.
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Everyone Fate Same Share
At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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Decision Every Fate Infinity Point World
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
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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Baffle Constant Existence Mean Neuron Proud Search Temporary Three Trap
Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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End Fact Have Impersonal Live Product Scientist
We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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Ahead Moment Room Spectator Walk
Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Chaos Commitment Consider Contradictory Hold People Word

A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That’s a sign of a good novel.

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