Endings Quotes
323 quotes by 242 authors
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Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I…
— Jodi Picoult
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Life is not so much about beginnings and endings as it is about going on and on and on. It is about muddling through the…
— Anna Quindlen
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These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in…
— Douglas Sirk
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My favorite thing about movies is the ending, and so all my favorite movies have really great endings.
— Emma Stone
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I'm not born again, I'm not Kabbalah, God forbid, but I did have an experience hitting 30 that I needed to lean on something that…
— Rufus Wainwright
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'Gossip Girl' came out in rapid succession over two years, so the endings always had to be suspenseful so that you couldn't wait for the…
— Cecily von Ziegesar
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She should have done science, not spent all her time with her head in novels. Novels gave you a completely false idea about life, they…
— Kate Atkinson
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All endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.
— Mitch Albom
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True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.
— Frances Hardinge
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I will tell you what is my overriding perception of the last twenty years: that we are a civilization careening toward a succession of anticlimaxes…
— John Irving
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And Father said, “There are no happy endings.†“Right!†cried Iowa Bob – an odd mixture of exuberance and stoicism in his cracked voice. “Death…
— John Irving
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Only bad books have good endings. If a book is any good, it's ending is always bad - because you don't want the book to…
— Pseudonymous Bosch
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Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my…
— Flann O'Brien
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Happy endings are still endings.
— Gregory Maguire
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That’s why love stories don’t have endings! They don’t have endings because love doesn’t end.
— Richard Bach
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October knew, of course, that the action of turning a page, of ending a chapter or of shutting a book, did not end a tale.…
— Neil Gaiman
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That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
— Nick Hornby
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So much for endings. Beginnings are always more fun. True connoisseurs, however, are known to favor the stretch in between, since it's the hardest to…
— Margaret Atwood
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If you wish for something hard enough, the fairy tales teach us, you can get it in the end. But it's hardly ever the way…
— Jennifer Weiner
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I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.
— James Patterson
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