"When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both."

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Source : Jack Finney (2013). “From Time to Time”, p.285, Simon and Schuster

Jack Finney

#Tunes Quotes #Bagpipes Quotes #Heard Quotes

“It is by doubting that we come to investigate, and by investigating that we recognize the truth.”
“There were many good years. Good decades, good centuries. We believed we were living in paradise. Perhaps that was our downfall. We wanted our lives to be perfect, so we ignored imperfections. Problems were magnified through inattention and war might have become inevitable if the Bore hadn't ever made.”
“Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.”
“I don't consider lacrosse a sport. To me that's just a frat activity that got out of hand.”
“Most aspects of my training didnâ€™t agree with me. There wasnâ€™t as much bossing around as Iâ€™d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.”
“The things that are really out of control, and scary, are emotions - of people around you, that are unpredictable, or those in yourself which are unpredictable.”
“When a house is tottering to its fall, The strain lies heaviest on the weakest part, One tiny crack throughout the structure spreads, And its own weight soon brings it toppling down.”
“Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.”

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