There is a cultural diversity that’s very valuable, and it’s valuable to have different ways of looking at the world.
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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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
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In this world, time has three dimensions, like space.
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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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Illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost nothing at the center of time, its vibrations slowed to echoes in vast canyons, its intensity reduced to the faint glow of fireflies.
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If you think about fiction writing as a spectrum, where at one end of the spectrum in the infrared, are the story tellers, and the people for whom creation of wonderful characters and telling a good story is the most important thing.
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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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Life is a vessel of sadness, but is noble to live life and without time there is no life. Others disagree.
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To the point that I have to be careful that they don’t take over.
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I re-read a lot of books that I like a lot. There are some books that I try to reread every couple of years. A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life.
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Authenticity and sincerity were the most important unifying principles of all these apparently different essays.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
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it is sometimes hard to tell what is real. We often invent what isn’t there. Or ignore what is.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist.
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Franz Kafka is an idea person. His books begin and end in ideas. Ideas have always been important to me in my writing.
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Originality is also very important to a writer. And all of the writers I’ve mentioned, of course, are original, but it’s important to me that every book that I do be really a completely fresh and new look at the world.
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