“…the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.”
Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)
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American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer 1914–1994Related quotes
Bk. 1, ch. 1
Source: The End of the Affair (1951)
“Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is by far the best ending for one.”
Variant: Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
Monotony http://www.cavafy.com/poems/content.asp?id=96&cat=1
Collected Poems (1992)
“At the beginning of a decade it is tempting to look ahead for the next ten years.”
"Some Economic Scenarios for the 1980's," 1980
speech at Lord Mayor’s Luncheon, Mansion House, London, November 10, 1942 : ( partial text http://www.churchill-society-london.org.uk/EndoBegn.html)
Referring to the British victory over the German Afrika Korps at the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
The Second World War (1939–1945)
Variant: This is not the end, this is not even the beginning of the end, this is just perhaps the end of the beginning.
Source: Their Finest Hour
“Some books are lies frae end to end,
And some great lies were never penn'd…”
Death and Dr. Hornbook, st. 1 (1787)
Variant: Some books are lies frae end to end.
“History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.”
As quoted in The Observer (22 September 1957)
Context: What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end; legends are lies which become history in the end.