When I used to play golf. It’s a terrible miserable game. It’s incredibly frustrating. In 18 holes you make 150 horrible shots off in the woods, in the water…
ALAN LIGHTMANWe’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.
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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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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Just 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…
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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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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The great ideas in science, like the Cro-Magnon paintings and the plays of Shakespeare, are part of our cultural heritage.
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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But what is the past? Could it be, the firmness of the past is just illusion? Could the past be a kaleidoscope, a pattern of images that shift with each disturbance of a sudden breeze, a laugh, a thought? And if the shift is everywhere, how would we know?
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