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Alan Lightman Quotes: 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.
         

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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If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.



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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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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.



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Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.



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