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Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.

Alan Lightman

And at the place where time stands still, one sees lovers kissing in the shadows of buildings, in a frozen embrace that will never let go.
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Build Embrace Frozen Go Kiss Let Lover Place See Shadow Stand
I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film.
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Always Book Film Long Made Think
Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings.
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Arousal Chemical Ending Flow More never Sexual
I reached for some principle that had been subconscious in me and lifted it into consciousness.
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Lift Principle Reach Some Subconscious
The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?I think one of the reasons why things are getting blurry is because there is not much meaning.
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Blurry Faster Get Go Hold Move Really Reason Something Thing World
Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn’t care one whit about us.
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Care Despite Felt Kinship Nature Oneness Strongly Us
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final.
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Death Each Friend Future Part World
Oh, love is very much a physical thing…. I realize that it’s very complicated, and I’m sure it can’t be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it’s very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.
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Love Much Physical Thing
At every point of decision, the world splits into three worlds, each with the same people, but different fates for those people. In time, there are an infinity of worlds.
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Decision Every Fate Infinity Point World
I think all tragedies are best told with some humor. You have to relieve the darkness to let the reader get through it. Also, that life has happiness and sadness mixed together.
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Humor Some Think Told Tragedy
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
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Ago Billion Breathed Century Live Only People Two Year
I think that the scienti?c way of looking at the world, and the humanistic way of looking at the world are complementary.
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Complementary Humanistic Look Scientific Think Way World
Most people have learned to live in the moment.
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Earn Live Moment Most People
A man who has owned nothing but a bicycle all of his life feels suddenly wealthy the moment he buys an automobile…But this happy sensation wears off.
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Automobile Bicycle Buy Happy Life Nothing Own Sensation Suddenly Wealthy Wear
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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Character Creation Fiction Infrared Tell Think Wonderful
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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Boat Building Coffee Government House Look Refuge Time Watch

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