It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
ALAN LIGHTMANA 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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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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It’s the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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I spend a lot of time just listening to the ospreys. I watch them go through their life cycle. They spend the winter in South America.
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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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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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I picked such seemingly disparate essays, I thought it was important to say what was the guiding principle in the selection rather than focus on any one essay.
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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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No one ever expects poetry to sell…
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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I oppose any belief that contradicts experimental evidence as determined by the methods of science.
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I think once we stop asking questions like “what is the age of the universe,” or “how are the instructions of DNA carried out on a microscopic level,” once we stop asking questions like that, we’re dead.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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I think e-mail is representative of our fast food mentality in the United States, where everything has gotten faster and faster, and we’re required to respond to inputs more quickly with less time for thought and reflection.
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The second squirms and wriggles like a bluefish in a bay. The first is unyielding, predetermined. The second makes up its mind as it goes along.
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