I think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country… people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
ALAN LIGHTMANOr perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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I value my correspondence with writers…
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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The mother and father osprey stay together. It’s a monogamous relationship. And every summer they raise a new brood of children.
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I would do something and let it sit for three months… just brood about and decide I needed to slightly change something here or there. Or one character wasn’t quite right. But I think everybody goes through this.
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We have a house on a very tiny island in Maine. Which is really my spiritual center. We’ve been going there for ten years, and it has no ferry service, no bridges, no telephone service. It’s really isolated.
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The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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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 it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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