Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
ALAN LIGHTMANWe’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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You make one good shot and it brings you back the next time. With writing a long book there has to be at least one bit that has some magic in it that you can go back to.
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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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Order is the law of nature, the universal trend, the cosmic direction. If time is an arrow, that arrow points toward order.
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In 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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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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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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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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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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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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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it’s a good starting place for me.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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