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In a world without future, each moment is the end of the world.

Alan Lightman

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Alan Lightman
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
Astrophysicist
Novelist
Physicist
Science Fiction Writer
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Memphis
Tennessee
Alan Paige Lightman
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