Alan Lightman Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Law Quotes

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 the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.

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The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion.

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No one ever wrote a story yet without some real emotional drive behind it--and I have not that drive except where violations of the natural order ... defiances and evasions of time, space, and cosmic law ... are concerned.

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I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise.

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The greater the emotional intensity, the greater the simplicity.

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To me exposition always contains tenderness. While a dramatized scene is a way of proving and guaranteeing an emotional experience for the reader, exposition assumes that the reader is sophisticated and can see the universal.

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We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we apeal to those of others. This is very difficult, because our own prejudice and emotional bias always seems to us so rational.

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Tags : T. S. Eliot Quotes , Passion Quotes , Emotional Quotes

One of the things I took from the show was emotional possibility. I never thought I would type that I learned how to emote in poems from watching Star Trek but there it is.

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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.

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But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

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Tags : Paulo Coelho Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Humans Quotes

I was conveniently bisexual for a long time, and then I went, 'Come on, who am I kidding?' And I have to say, it was the single biggest step I took toward emotional well-being, to stop feeling like I had to hide who I am.

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I saw [Allen Ginsberg] more as an old man who liked poetry and who had a lot of physical and emotional problems. We liked our time together.

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Humility is born of the spirit, humiliation of the ego.

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I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

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The more scholastically educated a man is generally, the more he is an emotional boor.

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Tags : D. H. Lawrence Quotes , Men Quotes , Emotional Quotes

Sex is the one thing you cannot really swindle; and it is the centre of the worst swindling of all, emotional swindling.... Sex lashes out against counterfeit emotion, and is ruthless, devastating against false love.

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I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.

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Tags : Oscar Wilde Quotes , Strength Quotes , Emotional Quotes

Time, space, and natural law hold for me suggestions of intolerable bondage, and I can form no picture of emotional satisfaction which does not involve their defeat - especially the defeat of time, so that one may merge oneself with the whole historic stream and be wholly emancipated from the transient and the ephemeral.

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Tags : H. P. Lovecraft Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Law Quotes

As much as possible, and this as quickly as possible: that is what the great mental and emotional illness craves that is variously called "present" or "culture," but that is actually a symptom of consumption.

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Tags : Friedrich Nietzsche Quotes , Emotional Quotes , Culture Quotes

At times it does not really matter what language you are speaking, especially when you are emotional and try to reach other hearts. To transcend emotion, silence is the best language.

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Tags : Abu Sufyan ibn Harb Quotes , Heart Quotes , Emotional Quotes