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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.

Alan Lightman

Some say it is best not to go near the center of time.
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Best Center Go Near Not Say Some Time
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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Boat Building Coffee Government House Look Refuge Time Watch
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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Different Each Fiction Group Influence Several Stand Woven Write
It is true that the arts at MIT don’t have the same amount of funding or same status as the sciences or engineering.
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Amount Art Engineer Fund Same Science Status True
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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E-mail Philosophy Position Taken
Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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Book Course Every Fresh Important Look Mention Original World Writer
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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Correspond Direction Future Horizontal Longitudinal Object Participate Perpendicular Vertical
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and Salman Rushdie.
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Author Fabulist Fiction Imagination Long Love People Such Write Time
He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Back Hope Love Person Possible Return Want
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about a particular arrangement of neurons that gives rise to consciousness. Our consciousness.
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Consciousness Interest Most Problem Science Unsolve
We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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Always Become Disembodied Nowhere Somewhere
We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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Highly Live Need Polarized Respectful Society Try Understand Way
I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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Cycle Life Listen Lot Osprey Spend Time Watch
No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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Ever Expert Poetry Sell
We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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Connect Dream Haunt Hope Thing Tiny Try Underneath Understand Whole World
Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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Fall Instant Jealousy Love Passion Someone Time

I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.

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I’m humbled and enormously grateful to be connected to [Franz] Kafka in a any way. He is one of the writers I admire. I think he has been a big influence on me.

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