What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
ALAN LIGHTMANI think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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Time is a rigid, bonelike structure, extending infinitely ahead and behind, fossilizing the future as well as the past.
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As human beings, don’t we need questions without answers as well as questions with answers, questions that we might someday answer and questions that we can never answer?
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In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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The exploding star of A.D. 1054, the Crab Nebula, was sighted and documented by the Chinese, but nowhere mentioned in the West, where the Aristotelian notion of the immortality of stars still held sway.
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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There is a place where time stands still.
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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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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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And if the present has little effect on the future, present actions need not be weighed for their consequence.
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