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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.

Alan Lightman

I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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E-mail Philosophy Position Taken
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Artist Joyful Life Music Novel Paint Unpredictability World
Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.
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Book Challenge Film Go Make Quiet
One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Cell How Live Metaphor One People Phone
The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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Deal Know Speak Time Unable
A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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Desert Footprint Man Occasion One Someone Something Then Writer
The history of science can be viewed as the recasting of phenomena that were once thought to be accidents as phenomena that can be understood in terms of fundamental causes and principles.
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Accident History Phenomena Recast Science View
Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Discipline Instruction Instrument Law Novel Other Pedagogical Physics
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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Dep Discover History Human Imagine Invent Know Seem Unknown Urge
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.” “They do not keep clocks in their houses. Instead, they listen to their heartbeats. They feel the rhythms of their moods and desires.”
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Body Clock House Keep Mechanical Time Two World
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
After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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Become Buy Car Deprive Door Feel Man Moreover Neighbour Poor
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
The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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Future Order Organisation Past Pattern Point
Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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Community Lose Overstate Word Writer
I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Challenge Country Literature Love Material Publish Say Still

After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.

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