If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable.
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There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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I have too many friends who tell me that they spend the first hour of every morning going through their e-mail messages. I’d like to use my time more carefully.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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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 a scientist, I don’t believe science will ever discover whether God exists. Nor do I believe religion will ever prove it.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
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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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Our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We’ve become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.
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