Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
ALAN LIGHTMANAnd if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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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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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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I have a family and you know very well the time that that takes. That’s good time. I have a couple hobbies. I’m a runner and play tennis. In the summer my family and I uproot ourselves and go live in Maine for the summer.
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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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I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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I’ve taken a philosophical position on e-mail. Although I think it’s a wonderful communication technology, and it has a lot of good uses, it is abused quite a lot.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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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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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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