Jack Finney quotes
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“Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.”
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“So all in all there wasn't anything really wrong with my life. Except that, like most everyone else's I knew about, it had a big gaping hole in it, an enormous emptiness, and I didn't know how to fill it or even know what belonged there.”
-- Jack FinneySource : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.17, Simon and Schuster
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“Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?”
-- Jack FinneySource : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.37, Simon and Schuster
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“As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we’re like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can’t see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it’s there.”
-- Jack FinneySource : Jack Finney (2014). “Time and Again”, p.52, Simon and Schuster
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“It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It can and often does motivate a lifetime, it kills more than cats, and the prospect of satisfying it can be the most exciting of emotions.”
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“When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.”
-- Jack FinneySource : Jack Finney (2013). “From Time to Time”, p.285, Simon and Schuster
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“And that, my friend, is how the world ends. On the edge of a precipice, with one foot over the edge, it stops, turns and goes back, leaving an empty earth of birds and insects, wind, rain and rusting weapons.”
-- Jack FinneySource : Jack Finney (2013). “About Time: 12 Short Stories”, p.54, Simon and Schuster
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