Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
ALAN LIGHTMANFor my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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Time is visible in all places. Clock towers, wristwatches, church bells divide years into months, months into days, days into hours, hours into seconds, each increment of time marching after the other in perfect succession.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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For me, spirituality includes the belief in things larger than ourselves, an appreciation of nature and beauty, a sensitivity to the world, a feeling of shared connection with other living things, a desire to help people less fortunate than ourselves.
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Music is, of course, a universal emotional experience, cutting across cultures and languages. I studied piano for ten years as a child and consider that experience one of the most valuable in my life.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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Children grow rapidly, forget the centuries-long embrace from their parents, which to them lasted but seconds. Children become adults, live far from their parents, live their own houses, learn ways of their own, suffer pain, grow old.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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