Most people have learned to live in the moment.
ALAN LIGHTMANJust didn’t know whether I would finish the book much less for it to come close to what I intended. I think that for any novel you never know exactly how the book is going to turn out…
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don’t believe there’s a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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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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