A world with one month is a world of equality.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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A book, especially a longer book, it’s a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It’s a vision of the whole thing.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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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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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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“Then there are those who think their bodies don’t exist. They live by mechanical time. They rise at seven o’clock in the morning. They eat their lunch at noon and their supper at six. They arrive at their appointments on time, precisely by the clock.
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They would rather have an eternity of contentment, even if that eternity were fixed and frozen, like a butterfly mounted in a case.
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