“...we're a people who pollute the very air we breathe. And our rivers. We're destroying the great lakes; Erie is already gone, and now we've begun on the oceans. We filled our atmosphere with radioactive fallout that put poison into… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the people who largely control our lives are somehow better informed than, and have judgment superior to,… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“...we're a people who pollute the very air we breathe. And our rivers. We're destroying the great lakes; Erie is already gone, and now… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“But it wasn't till he'd been there nearly two weeks that one morning Paris and its people suddenly became more than a background for… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“Labor-saving technology was supposed to give us more leisure time, but a greater percentage of our waking hours is spent in work or work-related… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“I was stunned. I was, and I knew it, an ordinary person who long after he was grown retained the childhood assumption that the… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
“Haven't you noticed, too, on the part of nearly everyone you know, a growing rebellion against the present? And an increasing longing for the… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
I went up a straight crooked lane and, I said 'No thanks, yes if yer please. — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
It may be that the strongest instinct of the human race, stronger than sex or hunger, is curiosity: the absolute need to know. It… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
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… — Jack Finney Copy Share Image
