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Jack Finney Biography

Walter Braden "Jack" Finney (born John Finney, October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.

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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.

Edge, Feet, Foot, Insects, Rain, Wind

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?

Book, Envy, Feelings, Given, Read, Time

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.

Bigs, Emptiness, Enormous, Hole, Holes, Know

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.

Cat, Lifetime, Prospect, Race, Sex

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.

Bends, Boat, Curves, Past, Rivers, Said

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

Bagpipe, Bagpipes, Heard, Tune, Tunes

Maybe I live in what is for me the wrong time.

Live, Maybe, Time, Wrong, Wrong Time

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