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41 " I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything. "

― Gertrude Stein , Narration: Four Lectures by Gertrude Stein

42 " There is one final point, the point that separates a true multivolume work from a short story, a novel, or a series. The ending of the final volume should leave the reader with the feeling that he has gone through the defining circumstances of Main Character's life. The leading character in a series can wander off into another book and a new adventure better even than this one. Main Character cannot, at the end of your multivolume work. (Or at least, it should seem so.) His life may continue, and in most cases it will. He may or may not live happily ever after. But the problems he will face in the future will not be as important to him or to us, nor the summers as golden. "

― , Shadows of the New Sun: Wolfe on Writing / Writers on Wolfe

43 " It isn't the happy ending Ingrid and I had dreamed up, but it's all a part of what I'm working through. The way life changes. The way people and things disappear. Then appear, unexpectedly, and hold you close. "

― Nina LaCour , Hold Still

44 " The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending and to have the two as close together as possible. "

45 " More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected. "

― Ronald Reagan

46 " You never know where you can possibly reach in your lifetime if you pursue the path of constant and never ending self-development. "

― ,

47 " Education is a never ending light that enlightens our path of life. "

48 " One of the most important of life´s lessons is to learn independance, to understand freedom. This means independence from attachments, from results, from opinions, and from expectations. Breaking attachments leads to freedom, but breaking attachments does not mean abandoning a loving and meaningful relationship, a relationship that nourrishes your soul. It means ending dependency on any person or thing. Love is never a dependency. "

― Brian L. Weiss , Messages from the Masters: Tapping into the Power of Love

49 " The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours. "

50 " Closure
/klōZHər/ Noun

1. The thing women tell you what they want, but secretly they really want you to tell them why you don’t want them again, so they can try one last time to convince you that you were wrong.

2. The warped mentality that having someone tell you honestly why they don’t want you is going to somehow make you feel peace, so you can move on.

3. The neat packaging of finishing conversations because you have been stewing over it insecurely about the length of what a stalker does.

4. The one thing women don’t give themselves because if they didn’t care about the jerk they wouldn’t still be hanging onto another conversation that tells them what they already know: He just isn’t that interested in you.

5. The anal retentive art of perfecting every ending with meaning, rather than just excepting you went through something rather sucky and he doesn’t care.

6. The act of closing something with someone, when in reality you should slam the door. "

― Shannon L. Alder

51 " In contravention of my belief that any life ending in death is essentially pointless, I needed my friends to open up that plastic bag and take one last look at me. Someone had to remember me, if only for a few more minutes in the vast silent waiting room of time. "

― Gary Shteyngart , Super Sad True Love Story

52 " Arranged Conversation and Pre-Planned Emotions never Works in real life, and Always Comes with Bad Ending . "

53 " There is no ending to the number of products you can produce with your time if well invested. "

54 " Time and tide, he thought. The cycle of life. Ending in this, the last twilight. Before the silence of death. He perceived in this a micro-universe, complete. "

― Philip K. Dick , Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

55 " The West Sister Dating Rules were clear on the matter of apologies. On the evolutionary scale of dating, a guy who apologized solely for the sake of ending the argument and getting back into your good graces was on the level of primeval slime — especially if he was clearly doing so merely because he was hoping for sex. The proper response was to unveil the offender’s deceit by demanding he explain what exactly he was apologizing for, and then scorn him when he betrayed his ignorance. "

56 " Bak stood a moment, as though considering whether the sum total of their shared working life was ending in a minus or a plus. "

― Jussi Adler-Olsen , The Absent One (Department Q, #2)

57 " The Darwinian approach to sex is often attacked as being antifeminist, but that is just wrong. Indeed, the accusation is baffling on the face of it, especially to the many feminist women who have developed and tested the theory. The core of feminism is surely the goal of ending sexual discrimination and exploitation, an ethical and political position that is in no danger of being refuted by any foreseeable scientific theory or discovery. "

― Steven Pinker , How the Mind Works

58 " 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 end. "

― Pseudonymous Bosch , The Name of This Book Is Secret (Secret, #1)

59 " 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. Having admitted that, he would also avow that happy endings were never difficult to find: " It is simply a matter," he explained to April, " of finding a sunny place in a garden, where the light is golden and the grass is soft; somewhere to rest, to stop reading, and to be content. "

60 " But, how do you know if an ending is truly good for the characters unless you've traveled with them through every page? "

― Shannon Hale , Midnight in Austenland (Austenland, #2)