No one ever expects poetry to sell…
ALAN LIGHTMANTime is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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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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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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