The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
ALAN LIGHTMANI have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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I appreciate the idea of the individual person battling the society – which is true in all his books.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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“The Diagnosis” had ten drafts of very significant changing, where I went through the whole book, wholesale and changed everything. Then the last year or so it was making small changes.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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Continents of memory had been lost.
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With a background in science I am extremely interested in the meeting ground of science, theology, and philosophy, especially the ethical questions at the border of science and theology.
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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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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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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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