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Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of…

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Most people have learned to live in the moment. The argument goes that if the past has uncertain effect on the present,…
Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.
In this world, there are two times. There is mechanical time and there is body time. The first is as rigid and…
With infinite life comes an infinite list of relatives. Grandparents never die, nor do great grandparents, great-aunts…and so on, back through the…
Where are the one billion people who lived and breathed in the year 1800, only two short centuries ago?
Faith is the ability to honor stillness at some moments, and at others to ride the passion and exuberance.
There is a place where time stands still ...illuminated by only the most feeble red light, for light is diminished to almost…
In a world without future, each parting of friends is a death. In a world without future, each loneliness is final. In…
In this world, artists are joyous. Unpredictability is the life of their paintings, their music, their novels. They delight in events not…
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and…
We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are conscious of that or…
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for…

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Strong, deeply rooted desire is the starting point of all achievement. Just as the electron is the last unit of matter discernible… — Napoleon Hill
I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to… — August Wilson
In political activity . . . men sail a boundless and bottomless sea; there is neither harbour for shelter nor floor for… — Michael Joseph Oakeshott
I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too… — Swami Vivekananda
It is very important to understand yoga philosophy: without philosophy, practice is not good, and yoga practice is the starting place for… — K. Pattabhi Jois
A lot of people in television who've had successful shows claim the 'Roseanne' show as their starting place, and I'm really proud… — Roseanne Barr
Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience,… — Alan Lightman
I don't place much faith in my intuitions, except as a starting place for designing experiments. — Elizabeth Spelke
I was really inspired while I was pregnant and I wrote a whole album for my baby. I wanted to write a… — Jewel
He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
You will now have a starting place and a destination, and you will be able to determine what it will cost you… — H Stanley Judd

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