While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
ALAN LIGHTMANMy second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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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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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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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 argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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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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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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