Imagine a world in which there is no time. Only images.
ALAN LIGHTMANWhat sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.
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When they are on their cell phones they are not where their bodies are…they are somewhere else in hyperspace. They are not grounded.
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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.
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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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Unfortunately, public debates do not have much room for subtlety. The audience wants a quick thrust at your opponent, not a slow and convoluted series of moves.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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My second novel, “Good Benito”, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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Whenever Obama uses subtleties in discussing a complex issue, he gets creamed.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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The belief or disbelief in such a Being is therefore a matter of faith.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers… that is a small population.
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A writer is someone who has a one-man tent in the desert and occasionally he sees the footprint of an other writer – in the form of a review or something.
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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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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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