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I always had this idea that you should never give up a happy middle in the hopes of a happy ending, because there is no such thing as a happy ending. Do you know what I mean? There is so much to lose.
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life
risks
happy-endings
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John Green |
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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. 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."
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endings
happy-endings
stories
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Neil Gaiman |
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"Have you thought of an ending?" "Yes, several, and all are dark and unpleasant." "Oh, that won't do! 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 came to that." "Ah! And where will they live? That's what I often wonder."
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writing
books
sam-gamgee
frodo
endings
happy-endings
lotr
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
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Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked
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love
happy-endings
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Margaret Atwood |
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And then she began to cry, and when I asked her why she was doing that, she said it was because I was to have a happy ending, and it was just like a book; and I wondered what books she'd been reading.
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life
perspective
happy-endings
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Margaret Atwood |
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Faust tends not to have happy endings.
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happy-endings
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David Mitchell |
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So few American novels have happy endings. Perhaps this is not surprising in a nation whose declaration of independence provides its citizens not with the right to happiness, but the right to its pursuit.
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happy-endings
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Azar Nafisi |
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"What ever happened to happy endings? They got them on shows at Saturday matinees.
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happy-endings
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Ray Bradbury |
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There are no happy endings, he knew, because nothing ends; and if there were any being dispensed, a great many worthier people would be in line for them long before Michael and Laura and himself. But the happiness of the unworthy and the happiness of the so-so is as fragile and self-centered and dear as the happiness of the righteous and the worthy; and the happiness of the living is no less short and desperate and forgotten than the joys of the dead.
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living
joys-of-the-dead
dear
nothing-ends
jonathan-rebeck
laura-durand
michael-morgan
self-centered
unworthy
fragile
worthy
righteous
happy-endings
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Peter S. Beagle |
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I found myself speaking softly as if I were telling an old tale to a young child. And giving it a happy ending, when all know that tales never end, and the happy ending is but a moment to catch one's breath before the next disaster. But I didn't want to think about that. I didn't want to wonder what would happen next.
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truth
happy-endings
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Robin Hobb |