Good Endings Quotes

• Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Goodbye, Art, Business

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “The Complete Poems of Longfellow”, Library of Alexandria

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  Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

  Gilda Radner

  Life, Change, Goodbye

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• What really counts are good endings, not flawed beginnings.

  Ibn Taymiyyah

  Islamic, Happy Endings, Ends

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• Some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, New Beginnings

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• A hard beginning maketh a good ending.

  John Heywood

  Inspirational, Motivational, Business

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.328

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• I wanted a perfect ending. Now I've learned, the hard way, that some poems don't rhyme, and some stories don't have a clear beginning, middle and end.

  Gilda Radner

  Goodbye, Farewell, Perfect

  Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

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• A good ending is vital to a picture, the single most important element, because it is what the audience takes with them out of the theater.

  Walt Disney

  Important, Elements, Theater

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• If you don't give up your hopes and dreams, then there will always be a good ending.

  Choi Minho

  Dream, Giving Up, Don't Give Up

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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 end.

  Pseudonymous Bosch

  Book, Want, Ends

  Pseudonymous Bosch (2008). “The Name of this Book Is Secret”, p.187, Hachette UK

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• The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

  George Burns

  Funny, Life, Humor

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• Because I come from the theater, I use the images of the theater and of movies a great deal when I write. I see the story in my head. I have to break down the outline of a story first. I have to know where I'm going. Usually I have a good beginning and a good ending, and then I think, "Now I have to find my way through it."

  Julie Andrews

  Writing, Thinking, Stories

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Obviously, where art has it over life is in the matter of editing. Life can be seen to suffer from a drastic lack of editing. It stops too quick, or else it goes on too long. Worse, its pacing is erratic. Some chapters are little more than a few sentences in length, while others stretch into volumes. Life, for all its raw talent, has little sense of structure. It creates amazing textures, but it can't be counted on for snappy beginnings or good endings either. Indeed, in many cases no ending is provided at all.

  Larry McMurtry

  Life, Art, Editing

  Larry McMurtry (2010). “Film Flam: Essays on Hollywood”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Together, Down And

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.197, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!' said Bilbo. 'Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Book, Dark, Together

  "The Lord of the Rings: One Volume".

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• Each book needs a good beginning and a good ending. People get pissed off when you don't close things off properly at the end.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Book, People, Pissed Off

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• A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provided they come close together.

  Federico Fellini

  Together, Film, Opening

  Federico Fellini, Damian Pettigrew (2003). “I'm a born liar: a Fellini lexicon”, Harry N Abrams Inc

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