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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.

Alan Lightman

As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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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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And beyond any particular clock, a vast scaffold of time, stretching across the universe, lays down the law of time equally for all.
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Beyond Down Equally Law Particular Stretch
The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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Give Little Love Other Return Selfish Want
In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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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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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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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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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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