Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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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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I have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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When the first mechanical clocks were invented, marking off time in crisp, regular intervals, it must have surprised people to discover that time flowed outside their own mental and physiological processes.
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If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.
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One day I’m going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do….is to watch these birds.
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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.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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As I understand it, a universe is a … well, a totality. A universe is everything that is, as far as the inside of the thing.
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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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I believe that we need to slow down.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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