Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
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We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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You can’t let your characters just be mouthpieces for your ideas. They have to live and breathe on their own.
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We feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
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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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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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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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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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I also like the magic realist writers, such as Borges and Marquez, and feel that interesting truths can be learned about our world by exploring highly distorted worlds.
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