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The time-deaf are unable to speak what they know. For speech needs a sequence of words, spoken in time.

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Alan Lightman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
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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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My second novel, Good Benito, was not finished. I wished that I had spent another year with it.
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Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
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Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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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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Events, once happened, lose reality, alter with a glance, a storm, a night. In time, the past never happened. But who could know? Who could know that the past is not as solid as this instant.
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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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I think what gets you through a small writing project, is just one burst of inspiration. A book, especially a longer book, it's a different kind of force that pushes you through it. It's a vision of the whole thing.
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