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1298 Ended quotes by 1057 unique authors

Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge. — Margaret Atwood
Civilization, in fact, grows more maudlin and hysterical; especially under democracy it tends to degenerate into a mere combat of crazes; the whole aim of… — H. L. Mencken
And Gandalf said: "This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended,… — J.R.R. Tolkien
To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every… — Gertrude Stein
I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered… — Nelson Mandela
And so the Universe ended. — Douglas Adams
I thought of the people before me who had looked down at the river and gone to sleep beneath it. I wondered about them. I… — James A. Baldwin
At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that… — Bill Bryson
Did it matter then, she asked herself, walking towards Bond Street, did it matter that she must inevitably cease completely? All this must go on… — Virginia Woolf
17. The self ended and the world began. They were of equal size, commensurate, one mirrored the other. 18. The riddle was: why couldn't we… — Louise GluÌˆck
Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How… — Oscar Wilde
Ruins stood for what was lost, and yet there were beautiful-peaceful, historic, intellectual. Not tragic or regrettable. Lena tried to keep hers that way too,… — Ann Brashares
Each of us is all the sums he has not counted: subtract us into the nakedness and night again, and you shall see begin in… — Thomas Wolfe
If life was an arc of light that began in darkness, ended in darkness, the first part of his life had happened in ordinary glare.… — Annie Proulx
He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
In the beginning there was only a small amount of injustice abroad in the world, but everyone who came afterwards added their portion, always thinking… — Paulo Coelho
That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning. — C.S. Lewis
It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died… — Stephen King
The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning. — C.S. Lewis
I sit here drunk now. I am a series of small victories and large defeats and I am as amazed as any other that I… — Charles Bukowski
I've been burdened by questions I've asked myself a thousand times since the last time we were together. Why did I do it? And would… — Nicholas Sparks
And over all those sleepy weeks, the dream always ended the same way, with the dragon coming for the princess saying the same words every… — Scott Westerfeld
But we've all ended up giving body and soul to Africa, one way or another. Even Adah, who's becoming an expert in tropical epidemiology and… — Barbara Kingsolver
All rivers run full to the sea; those who are apart are brought together; the lost ones are redeemed; the dead come back to life;… — Mark Helprin
Harry was speeding toward the ground when the crowd saw him clap his hand to his mouth as though he was going to be sick-he… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling

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