The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
ALAN LIGHTMANIn 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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Writers are a loosely knit community – community is an overstated word. Writers don’t see each other very much.
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After a while the car becomes just another thing that he owns. Moreover, when his neighbor next door buys two cars, in an instant our man feels wretchedly poor and deprived.
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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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In fiction writing, I would say there are several different strands that have been woven through my own writing, and each influenced by a different group of writers.
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There is a place where time stands still.
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But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
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We try to connect. We try to find truth. We dream and we hope. And underneath all of these strivings, we are haunted by the suspicion that what we see and understand of the world is only a tiny piece of the whole.
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There are important differences which should be preserved, and in trying to do away with those differences we would lose something the same way as if we tried to make all religions one religion or all races one race.
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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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There are the alpha waves in the brain; another clock is the heart. And all the while tick the mysterious, ruthless clocks that regulate aging.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy.
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As both a scientist and a humanist myself, I have struggled to understand different claims to knowledge, and I have eventually come to a formulation of the kind of religious belief that would, in my view, be compatible with science.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself.
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One metaphor for how we are living is that you see so may people with cell phones.
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“The Diagnosis” is by far my most ambitious book. I such great hopes for it… there was so much I wanted to do with the book. I was extremely insecure about it for several years.
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