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Alan Lightman

In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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Body Mechanical Time World
We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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Centeredness Lost Way
Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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Different Direction Each Future Move Time
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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Feel Hard Life Month Really Silence Two
Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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Center Children Curse Parent Time Voice Wrinkle
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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E-mail First Friend Gone Hours Every Many Message Moring Spend Tell Through Too
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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Absolute Consolation Time World
Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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Air Begin Breathe Central Existence Intelligent Like Passage Time
Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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Escape Father Free Immortality Own Person Shadow Some Son
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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Blurry Faster Get Go Hold Move Really Reason Something Thing World
An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Counterpoint Haunt Personal Powerful Unusual Written
Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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Chaos Commitment Consider Contradictory Hold People Word
Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Illogic Justification Logic Postdiction Prediction
That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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Artistic Balance Character Control Fiction Fine Freedom Maintain Surprise Writer
I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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Compare Country Food Like Lunch Note Really Someone
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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Advice Alive All Aunt Come Die Generation Grandparent Great Infinite Offer Relative

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