A world with one month is a world of equality.
ALAN LIGHTMANDon’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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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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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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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea.
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I still will sit down at the piano and play when I am wrestling with something emotionally or just want to move into the musical world.
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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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Human beings consider themselves satisfied only compared to some other condition.
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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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All other giving is selfish. But he is being selfish a little, isn’t he, by wanting her to love him in return?
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Every essay – the subject matter of every essay – is ultimately about the essayist; him or herself. That ultimately, every essayist is writing about his or her view of the world.
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For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable. While people can be doubted, time cannot be doubted. While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.
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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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It’s the journeyto get there. It’s a way of thinking and it’s an intellectual curiosity, a desire to know how the world works, and to know what the fundamental principles of the world are, and to know our place in it.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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