Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
ALAN LIGHTMANI re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing of rain?
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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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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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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The target of power is more interesting than its quantity.
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Just as an object may move in three perpendicular directions, corresponding to horizontal, vertical, and longitudinal, so an object may participate in three perpendicular futures.
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A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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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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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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In restaurants, walking, they have cell phones clamped to their to heads.
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