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I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.

Alan Lightman

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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Amount Little Live Many Nothing So
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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Clock Crisp First Interval Invent Make Mechanical Time
Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.
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Bak Bend Circle Itself Suppose Time
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the generations, all alive and offering advice.
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Advice Alive All Aunt Come Die Generation Grandparent Great Infinite Offer Relative
Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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Debate Much Public Room Subtitle Unfortunately
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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Document Explode Held Immortality Mentioned Slight
And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don’t think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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Human Imagination Machine Match Mind Since Technology Unlikely
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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Advance Imagination Revolution Sense Species World
And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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Book Course Depend Done Frighten Make Previous
We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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Expect Not Often See
Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain.
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Brain Electrical More Surge
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions?
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Argue Decision Light Make Occur Possible Some
The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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Action Argument Consequence Future Need Uncertain
There is a place where time stands still.
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Place Stand Still Time
In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.
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Body Clock Electricity Future Law Machine Person Same Short
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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Death Each Friend Future Part World

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