What sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
ALAN LIGHTMANWe feel such a strong connection to nature. But the relationship between nature and us is one-sided. There is no reciprocity. There is no mind on the other side of the wall.
More Alan Lightman Quotes
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In fiction writing ideas have to be handled extremely carefully.
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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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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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In the coffee houses, in the government buildings, in boats of Lake Geneva, people look at their watches and take refuge in time.
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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 have always loved magic realism as a form of writing.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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All beliefs not in such contradiction may be considered as faith. Whether faith in a particular belief is beneficial or not is another matter.
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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, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time.
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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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Will never fail to show his love, will never become jealous, will never fall in love with someone else, will never lose the passion of this instant of time.
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Like the air we breathe or like the passage of time, is central to our existence as intelligent beings.
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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. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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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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