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The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or joy.
Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
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Alan Paige Lightman
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One day I'm going to write a book about osprey. It has really gotten deep into my bloodstream. So when you ask what else I do, I feel like this is part of what I do....is to watch these birds.
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I wouldn't overall say that The Diagnosis is a funny book. I would say that it has comic moments. It's a modern tragedy.
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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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I should have written books instead of reading them.
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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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Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.
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No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.
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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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In a world of fixed future, life is an infinite corridor of rooms, one room lit at each moment, the next room dark but prepared. We walk from room to room, look into the room that is lit, the present moment, then walk on. We do not know the rooms ahead, but we know we cannot change them. We are spectators of our lives.
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Writers read essays and serious thinkers and serious readers... that is a small population.
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It is a world of impulse. It is a world of sincerity. It is a world in which every word spoken speaks just to that moment, every glance given has only one meaning, each touch has no past or no future, each kiss is a kiss of immediacy.
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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Everyone shares the same fate.
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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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