It’s exciting having a student who is not used to expressing their emotional side and bringing that out in them and see that developing and helping to nurture that.
ALAN LIGHTMANA writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I have also been fascinated for a long time with the intersection of science and religion.
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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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A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation.
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A world with one month is a world of equality.
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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly.
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Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back? Is anything so pure? Or is love, by its nature, a reciprocity, like oceans and clouds, an evaporating of seawater and a replenishing by rain?
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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The Book of Telling tells of a woman’s journey to uncover the secret life of her father and to find herself in the process.
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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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We’re plugged in 24 hours a day now. We’re all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or not.
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That’s the fine balance of a fiction writer…to be able to give your characters enough freedom to surprise you and yet still maintain some kind of artistic control.
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Science is an intellectual journey, and to me, it’s not the destination.
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We try to impose order, both in our minds and in our conceptions of external reality.
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