Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

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Or perhaps it is not because the cosmos is irrational but because they are rational. Who can say which, in an acausal world?

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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.

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We’ve lost our way, we have lost our centeredness.
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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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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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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.

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Rather, each act is an island in time, to be judged on its own. … It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity.
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So it’s really about two and a half months that I’ll feel like I can recover some silence in my life…which is so hard to find.
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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.

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We live in a highly polarized society. We need to try to understand each other in respectful ways.
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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.

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I was in New York and had lunch with Oliver Sachs and compared notes with him – he is someone I really like.
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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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You’ve made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.

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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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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.

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In a world without future, each laugh is the last laugh. In a world without future, beyond the present lies nothingness, and people cling to the present as if hanging from a cliff.
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Each future moves in a different direction of time. Each future is real.
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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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And of course, that makes it frightening to start a new book because you can’t really depend upon what you’ve done with previous books.
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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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