I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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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…
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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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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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The book is finished by the reader. A good novel should invite the reader in and let the reader participate in the creative experience and bring their own life experiences to it, interpret with their own individual life experiences.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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It’s a flow of chemicals and electrical currents, and it developed over millions of years in the process of evolution to aid in the procreation of the species.
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They came back to the nest in the middle of April. They take separate vacations in the winter – the mother and father.
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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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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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