“...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
“...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 our children's bones, and we knew it. We've made bombs that can wipe out humanity in minutes, and they are… — Jack Finney Copy Share
“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 his vacation. He was sitting in a café, out on the walk, having a tiny cup of Paris-tasting, Paris-smelling coffee, watching traffic stream by, pleased as always with the countless people on bikes expertly threading their… — Jack Finney Copy Share
“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 people who largely control our lives are somehow better informed than, and have judgment superior to, the rest of us; that they are more intelligent. Not until Vietnam did I finally realize that some of the… — Jack Finney Copy Share
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 past? I have. Never before in all my long life have I heard so many people wish that they lived 'at the turn of the century,' or 'when life was simpler,' or 'worth living,' or 'when… — Jack Finney Copy Share
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
