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Time is the clarity for seeing right and wrong.
Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
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Memphis
Tennessee
Alan Paige Lightman
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Another strand of my writing is the importance of the idea. 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 think Joe Leiberman has been one of the leaders of the country... people have such a broad respect for him as a moral force.
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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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A good book changes for you every few years because you are in a different place in your own life. That's a sign of a good novel. Not only will two different readers get something different but so will a single reader at different points in his life.
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Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].
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In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.
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Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
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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. I believe that we need to slow down.
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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in atime of pain or of joy. 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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It's the Platonic philosophy in The Republic that philosophers should lead the country.
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In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not forecasted, happenings without explanation, retrospective.
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Although technology is proceeding at a dizzying pace, I believe that the human mind will always have control of itself. And since the human mind has a degree of infinity and imagination unlikely to be matched by a machine for a very, very long time, I don't think that we will become the machines of the machines.
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People are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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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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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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Scientists will forever have to live with the fact that their product is, in the end, impersonal.
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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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We often do not see what we do not expect to see.
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I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don't believe there's a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.
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Each time is true, but the truths are not the same.
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