Jack Finney famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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 Finney
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Rizal learned the right ideas at the wrong time, and for this he was shot.
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There is no wrong time to do the right thing.
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There's no wrong time to make the right decision.
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Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.
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Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.
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Sometimes it just happens - to the wrong people at the wrong time.
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The right thing at the wrong time will lead to failure.
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In my experience, sometimes a movie just hits at the wrong time, gets the wrong press, or gets the wrong representation, and it gets misunderstood.
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The audience goes to sleep really quickly! If you have a slight pause at the wrong time, that's it!
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There is not a thing as the wrong place, or the wrong time. We are where we are at the only time we have. Perhaps it's where we're meant to be.
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