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

— Jack Finney

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

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

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

Once in a while you’re momentarily conscious of being happy. But I’m superstitious, and I picture Fate—best be respectful, and use a capital F—as a misty presence somewhere up in the sky but not too far away. Always listening, alert and ready to punish forbidden optimism.

I like women, I never run them down as somehow inferior to men, and I have a contempt for men who do. And I think, for one thing, that women are just as principled as men—but they sure as hell aren’t the same kind of principles.

Time and Again (1970)

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