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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

Alan Lightman

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Ahead Back Broot Look People Skip Time
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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Advice Alive All Aunt Come Die Generation Grandparent Great Infinite Offer Relative
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless.
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Acausal Helpless Scientist World
“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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Book Change Diagnosis Draft Significant Ten Through Whole Wholesale
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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Glance Meaning Moment Speak Spoken World
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Body Mechanical Time World
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
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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Action Argument Consequence Future Need Uncertain
Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Arousal Chemical Ending Flow More never Sexual
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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Difference Important Lose Preserve Same Something
I value my correspondence with writers…
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Correspondance Value Writer
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
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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Birth Circle Every Handshake Kiss Precise Repeat Time Word World
Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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Aftre Begin Down Ecept Gof Sit Universe
Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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Complex Cream Discuss Issue President Subtleties
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?
ALAN LIGHTMAN

Anything Love Person Possible Pure Want

My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.

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