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Andrew M. Greeley (1928–2013) Irish-American Roman Catholic priest, sociologist, journalist and novelist
“this might be the happy ending without the ending”
David Levithan The Realm of Possibility
Source: The Realm of Possibility
Roald Dahl book Boy
Edna St. Vincent Millay, in "First Fig" from A Few Figs from Thistles (1920); said to be a motto Roald Dahl lived by.
Misattributed
Variant: My candle burns at both ends;
It will not last the night;
But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends —
It gives a lovely light.
Source: Boy: Tales of Childhood
Joss Whedon (1964) American director, writer, and producer for television and film
"This explains Joss perfectly." at Whedonesque.com (15 February 2006)
Augusten Burroughs book You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
Source: You Better Not Cry: Stories for Christmas
“Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.”
Kim Harrison (1966) Pseudonym
Source: Something Deadly This Way Comes
“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
Context: And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.
“Two blind men waited at the end of an era, contemplating beauty.”
Brandon Sanderson book Words of Radiance
Source: Words of Radiance
Terry Tempest Williams book Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Source: Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place
Megan McCafferty (1973) American novelist
Source: Sloppy Firsts
L.J. Smith (1965) American author
Source: Nightfall
“Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.”
Katherine Anne Porter (1890–1980) American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist, and political activist
Simone de Beauvoir book La Vieillesse
Pt. 2, Ch. 2: Time, activity, history, p. 412
The Coming of Age (1970)
Source: La Vieillesse
“Oprah's quitting in 2011. Now we know why the Mayans ended their calendar in 2012”
Craig Ferguson (1962) Scottish-born American television host, stand-up comedian, writer, actor, director, author, producer and voice a…
“You must learn to end the wars in your world by ending them in your minds.”
Barbara Marciniak (1928–2012)
Source: Family of Light: Pleiadian Tales and Lessons in Living
Ilona Andrews American husband-and-wife novelist duo
Source: Bayou Moon
“What came for them? Not death. Just the end of living.”
Arundhati Roy book The God of Small Things
Source: The God of Small Things
Federico García Lorca (1898–1936) Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
Source: Dona Rosita la soltera
“When male authors write love stories, the heroine tends to end up dead.”
Susan Elizabeth Phillips (1948) American writer
Source: Ain't She Sweet
“I will follow you to the ends of the world.”
Khaled Hosseini book A Thousand Splendid Suns
Source: A Thousand Splendid Suns
Charles Bukowski book Factotum
Source: Factotum (1975), Ch. 56
Context: The bus ran along a very narrow strip of cement that stood up out of the water with no guard-rail, no nothing; that's all there was to it. The bus driver leaned back and we roared along over this narrow cement strip surrounded by water and all the people in the bus, the twenty-five or forty or fifty-two people trusted him, but I never did. Sometimes it was a new driver, and I thought, how do they select these sons of bitches? There's deep water on both sides of us and with one error of judgement he'll kill us all. It was ridiculous. Suppose he had an argument with his wife that morning? Or cancer? Or visions of God? Bad teeth? Anything. He could do it. Dump us all. I knew that if I was driving that I would consider the possibility or desirability of drowning everybody. And sometimes, after just such considerations, possibility turns into reality. For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter. The old story of good and evil. But none of the bus drivers ever dumped us. They were thinking instead of car payments, baseball scores, haircuts, vacations, enemas, family visits. There wasn't a real man in the whole shitload.
“…the end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.”
Ralph Ellison book Invisible Man
Prologue.
Invisible Man (1952)
Italo Calvino (1923–1985) Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
Ntozake Shange for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
Source: for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf
“In any relationship in which two people become one, the end result is two half people.”
Wayne W. Dyer (1940–2015) American writer
Simone de Beauvoir (1908–1986) French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, political activist, feminist, and social theorist
Rick Riordan book The Last Olympian
Variant: The end of the world started when a Pegasus landed on the hood of my car.
Source: The Last Olympian
“Let me finish my beer." (Stark)
"Of course. The end of the world can wait.(Kasabian)”
Richard Kadrey (1957) San Francisco-based novelist, freelance writer, and photographer
Source: Kill the Dead
Lloyd Alexander (1924–2007) American children's writer
Source: The Arkadians
Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion
Variant: Sol remembered the dream, remembered his daughter’s hug, and realized that in the end—when all else is dust—loyalty to those we love is all we can carry with us to the grave.
Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 30 (p. 242)
“… owning a dog always ended with this sadness because dogs just don't live as long as people do.”
John Grogan (1958) American journalist
Source: Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog
“Still, in the end, we all die just the same.”
Haruki Murakami book Hear the Wind Sing
Source: Hear the Wind Sing
“The purpose of debates is to explore issues, not end them.”
David Gemmell (1948–2006) British author of heroic fantasy
Source: Lord of the Silver Bow
“Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art.”
Will Durant book The Story of Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy (1926)
Gustave Flaubert (1821–1880) French writer (1821–1880)
Source: The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, 1830-1857
“We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor
“Defeat ends when we launch into another battle. Failure has no end: it is a lifetime choice.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra (2012), The Defeated Ones