Frases de Jack Finney

Jack Finney fue un escritor estadounidense. Sus obras más conocidas son de acción y ciencia ficción. Entre sus obras más famosas destacan novelas como Los ladrones de cuerpos o Ahora y siempre.

✵ 2. octubre 1911 – 14. noviembre 1995
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Jack Finney: Frases en inglés

“Sounds impressive. And expensive.”

Jack Finney libro Time and Again

“Not at all.” Danziger shook his head firmly. “It will cost, all told, only a little over three million dollars, less than the cost of two hours of war, and a better buy.”
Fuente: Time and Again (1970), Chapter 4 (p. 65)

“When you’ve heard one bagpipe tune you’ve heard them both.”

Jack Finney libro From Time to Time

Fuente: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 28 (p. 285)

“The best thing in our show was always our move to the next town.”

Jack Finney libro From Time to Time

Fuente: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 21 (p. 233)

“I had the evening to kill, but it didn’t want to die and fought back.”

Jack Finney libro From Time to Time

Fuente: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 20 (p. 212)

“They couldn’t promise that, could they?”

Jack Finney libro From Time to Time

Fuente: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 11 (p. 112)
Contexto: “Of course not. Congress would have to declare war; this was back in the old-fashioned days when Presidents felt they had to honor their oath to abide by the Constitution.”

“Spare me the nostalgia.”

Jack Finney libro From Time to Time

Fuente: From Time to Time (1995), Chapter 4 (p. 58)
Contexto: I hate that word. You know who uses it mostly? Time patriots. Same people who live in the best country in the world. Must be the best because that’s where they live. And they live in the best of times; has to be best because it’s their lifetime. You even suggest there just might have been better times than here and now, and it’s ‘nostalgia, nostalgia.’ Don’t even know what the word means. Means overly sentimental, for crysakes.

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