Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
ALAN LIGHTMANWhat sense is there in continuing when one has seen the future?
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Nature is purposeless. Nature simply is. We may find nature beautiful or terrible, but those feelings are human constructions. Such utter and complete mindlessness is hard for us to accept.
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The first is as rigid and metallic as a massive pendulum of iron that swings back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.
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Every reader gets something different from a book and every reader, in a sense, completes it in a different way.
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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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All writers have roots they draw from – travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction.
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For my students who are trying to learn the craft of writing in a writing class – contemporary literature is what’s most useful.
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The world is moving faster and faster, but where are we going?
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And if we can’t unplug from that machine, eventually we’re going to become mindless.
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I love the fact publishers are still publishing unprofitable material. It’s a challenge to the powers that be. It’s saying there is a real literature in this country and we will keep publishing it.
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Body time flows at its own variable rate, oblivious to the most precise hydrogen master clocks in the laboratory. In fact, the human body contains its own exquisite time-pieces, all with their separate rhythms.
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We have become disembodied. By being always somewhere else we are nowhere.
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The future is pattern, organization, union, intensification; the past, randomness, confusion, disintegration, dissipation.
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All of these things can occur with or without God. I do not believe in the existence of God, but I consider myself a spiritual person in the manner I have just described. I call myself a spiritual atheist. I would imagine that many people are spiritual atheists.
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The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present, there is no need to dwell on the past.
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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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