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You've made something grand, but it will be grander if it has feeling and beauty and harmony.
Alan Lightman
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Alan Lightman
Age: 75
Born: 1948
Born: November 28
Astrophysicist
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Science Fiction Writer
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Memphis
Tennessee
Alan Paige Lightman
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