It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
ALAN LIGHTMANThe tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door’s shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.
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It’s not necessarily a large number of people that affect the culture. You don’t count the number of influential voices, you weigh them. A hundred people can affect the culture.
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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.
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I wouldn’t overall say that “The Diagnosis” is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It’s a modern tragedy.
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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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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I am spellbound by the plays of Shakespeare. And I am spellbound by the second law of thermodynamics.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers who cannot stop betting. Scientists are buffoons, not because they are rational but because the cosmos is irrational.
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We don’t have the time, literally, to think during the day. To listen to ourselves think. To think about where we are going, who we are, what’s important.
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Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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If you over-plot your book you strangle your characters. Your characters have to have enough freedom and life to be able to surprise you.
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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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