If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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 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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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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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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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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If you told a story that was all darkness, it wouldn’t be real.
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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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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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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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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of … shall we say, power.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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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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There is a place where time stands still.
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