If I were writing a novel I would end it here: a novel, I used to think, has to end somewhere, but I'm beginning to believe my realism has been at fault all these years, for nothing in life now ever seems to end. Chemists tell you matter is never completely destroyed, and mathematicians tell you that if you halve each pace in crossing a room, you will never reach the opposite wall, so what an optimist I would be if I thought that this story ended here.
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Related I think everything should have an end, an end of the brutal stuff happening home. ENd for the song, ... DEYTH BANGER If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it. HORACE MANN If an idiot were to tell you the same story every day for a year, you would end by believing it HORACE MANN Magnus took a deep breath and spoke gently. “Will. You asked me for my wisdom, as someone who has ... CASSANDRA CLARE If I can tell you the story from beginning to end in five minutes, I'm ready to start writing. Then ... RICHARD PRICE There are so many things I wish I could tell you, but I can't. I'm not sure if you would ever unders... RANA MAGDY I would sit in my room and become hysterical about the wild incredible story I was writing. And I th... CHESTER HIMES If there was a God. I would spit in his face for subjecting me to this. If there was a Devil, I woul... JAMES FREY If I could give you information of my life, it would be to show how a woman of very ordinary ability... FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE I am thinking this now and I thought this last week when we lost, if you ever wanted a basketball ga... GREG HEATH If you laid ever economist in the country end to end you would still not reach a conclusion. SALVADOR NASELLO I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought... CAT STEVENS I have to tell you I never in my life anticipated getting this old, this fast. It seems as if I were... BEN STEIN It seems as if only now I really know who I am. My strengths, my weaknesses, my jealousiesits as... KIRK DOUGLAS What would I do if you never came here?' But I was ALWAYS coming here. I thought about one of my fav... ELIZABETH GILBERT I am confident that, in the end, common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist, brought up ... YUSUF ISLAM My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story o... BLACK ELK You were like reading a good novel. The kind were you wanted to turn every page, & never put it ... TREVOR DRIGGERS How can you be falling for me if you already love me?” “Because, even though a part of me d... RACHEL SPANSWICK In your life, right here and now, things like mermaids, fairies, witches and monsters are nothing bu... MARILENA MEXI It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to... JON KRAKAUER What would you do if you were me? Tell me. Please tell me! But you're far from this. Your finge... MARKUS ZUSAK What would you say if I were to tell you that I believe you're as human as I am? MARK POWELL At the end of the day, if there was indeed some Body or presence standing there to judge me, I hoped... LANCE ARMSTRONG I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but... C.S. LEWIS In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or reg... ELLIS PETERS Nothing in my life is going right, right now and there's got to be a reason for that. I think that G... MINDY MCCREADY So if you want to make sure, you can be sure that I understand what these proceeding [sic] can end u... ZACARIAS MOUSSAOUI I know from the bottom of my heart and with all of it, that it doesn't matter if at the end of your ... C. JOYBELL C. One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion tha... AGATHA CHRISTIE I’ve never been so clear about anything in my life. I turned around, made my way to that room you ... JAMIE MCGUIRE Many writers will get a contract by selling chapters and outlines or something like that. I wrote th... GEORGE R. R. MARTIN Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping... PATRICK O'BRIAN Every writing course I ever heard of said the same thing. Take one story, follow it through, beginni... DOROTHY ALLISON Shahrzad, I've failed you several times. But there was one moment I failed you beyond m... RENEE AHDIEH I don't know about you, but the first thing I do when I'm supposed to write something, ... is to do ... DAVE GORMAN For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you 'today' never comes to an end: and yet our 'toda... AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO All I can think about is how fucked up it would be for your life to end here, now. I mean I know tha... GAYLE FORMAN I think Melbourne is by far and away the most interesting place in Australia, and I thought if I eve... PETER TEMPLE I don't know you very well, and i'm almost afraid to know you better. Maybe i love you because i don... ELLIOT MABEUSE Go out and interview people to find a partner whom you can trust. Find somebody who subscribes to th... LISA CAPUTO What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, "this too shall pass"If ... BOB WEIR I am almost a hundred years old; waiting for the end, and thinking about the beginning. T... MEG ROSOFF I would say to always follow your dream. And dream big because my whole career, including any of the... SIMONE BILES Definitely I am keeping my promise from the beginning, that I will love you until the end. Even if t... HENANNIE ZARAGOZA I've been a Cub all my life. I came up here when I was 20 years old and spent my whole career he... RON SANTO I won't let it be disruptive to my teammates at all. I believe that when you sign a contract, you pl... CLIFF FLOYD If I revealed all that has been made known to me, scarcely a man on this stand would stay with me.... JOSEPH SMITH, JR. Why try to fit in when you were born to stand out?” “I’m nothing special. I’m drowning,” I... IF I WAKE I’d scream, but I have no voice. The bullies stole it from me IF I WAKE You said I don’t exist in one life. What if each of these lives are designed to teach you a lesson... IF I WAKE I’m William James Carter. My friends call me Will,” he says. “I’m Lucy Janette Phillips,” ... IF I WAKE She has a long journey ahead of her. She doesn’t need to hear she will lose before she even begins IF I WAKE I used to dream of some kind of way that you could carry a phone with you - but I never thought I wo... MAEVE BINCHY Shanna, sweet Shanna. How can I tell you what you mean to me? When I saw you at the ball it was as i... KERRELYN SPARKS All my life,I've been afraid of things, as a child and a woman must be. I lied about it naturally. I... ANNE RICE I was completely shattered. I couldn't think clearly. When something like that happens to you, you a... WALTER MAYER You come to me, you appear to me in the night, the fact that you're not here appears to me, that I c... ROMINA PAULA Go for broke, my friends. Straighten your spine when you step to the podium. Trust your own tongue. ... TONI SORENSON What I tell these young people is, the world is not as dangerous as the older generation would like ... JONATHAN KOZOL I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched th... JODI PICOULT I have only known her for two years. But if you took every memory, every moment, if you stretched th... JODI PICOULT If you think where computers have come in the last 10 years, you can think how far forgery has come.... DAVE PENRY If you had asked me when I was 28 and in my wedding dress if I ever thought I would end up in my for... JENNA MCCARTHY He used you, yeah. But what if you hadn't come? My family would have run again, but we would never h... LINDA GERBER Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of ... JANET FITCH Why should I tell you everything about how I feel when you never tell me anything? It's like banging... CASSANDRA CLARE It seems important to me that beginning writers ponder this—that since 1964, I have never had a bo... JOSEPH HANSEN If life were a novel, then dead would mark the end of the first chapter... KELLY NELSON Maybe one day you'll come back. Maybe you never will and that'll suck, but you can't keep doing this... KATJA MILLAY Hello, old friend. And here we are. You and me, on the last page. By the time you read these words, ... STEVEN MOFFAT Shhh. Just listen. You, of all people. Listen to what Im saying. This...tonight...is the most wonder... JOJO MOYES If we lived each day as our last, I bet we'd all be a lot more honest with people, because we wouldn... ELLEN DEGENERES If I were to live a thousand years, I would belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thou... MICHELLE HODKIN From this experience I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came to... ARTHUR GOLDEN From this experience, I understood the danger of focusing only on what isn't there. What if I came t... ARTHUR GOLDEN I'm one of the lucky directors that pretty much every movie I've done has started a franchis... LOUIS LETERRIER What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, "this too shall pass" BOB WEIR Until death," Jem replied gently. "Those are the words of the oath. 'Until aught but death part thee... CASSANDRA CLARE I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, b... EDWIN STARR Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you... SAMANTHA SHANNON I stayed in therapy long enough to know that nothing that happened to me was my fault. I didn't do a... KATJA MILLAY I love you, and it's driving me crazy to see you so upset. I want to fix it, and I know I can't. But... DAVID LEVITHAN I was never a natural. I got there in the end because I did believe that if you work hard enough, th... VICTORIA BECKHAM For the first time in my life, I understood the end of that poem. And I never wanted to. You have to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY My life has been charmed in the sense that I've met some extraordinary people. But at the end of... MARIE HELVIN Claire: Dear Claire, "What" and "If" are two words as non-threatening as words can be. But put them ... LISE FRIEDMAN I used to look at (my dog) Smokey and think, 'If you were a little smarter you could tell me what yo... FRED JUNGCLAUS What did I care if numbers of nameless and faceless people and creatures were slaughtered in the vag... J.K. ROWLING I think we probably will end up in America because he would be giving up much more to come and live ... EMILY MORTIMER I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved... ANDREA GIBSON You think that you are an iconoclast, but you’re not. You just move, or replace what you cannot ha... MICHAEL ONDAATJE I am what I am. I would tell you what you want to know if I could, for you have been kind to me. But... PETER S. BEAGLE My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt,... MARK TWAIN My writing became more and more minimalist. In the end, I couldn't write at all. For seven or ei... KARL OVE KNAUSGAARD I can’t tell you what to do. Only you know what is best for you, but I can tell you this much: lov... MICHELLE FROST Open your eyes now. I will. One moment. Has all vanished since? If I open and am for ever in the bla... JAMES JOYCE I think I lost my golf energy. You can't come out here and go through the motions. These guys are to... JAY HAAS One word more. You look as if you thought it tainted you to be loved by me. You cannot avoid it... ELIZABETH GASKELL We make provisions for this life as if it were never to have an end, and for the other life as thoug... JOSEPH ADDISON
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GRAHAM GREENE Poverty is apt to strike suddenly like influenza, it is well to have a few memories of extravagance ... GRAHAM GREENE We can love with our minds, but can we love only with our minds? Love extends itself all the time, s... GRAHAM GREENE Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children. GRAHAM The main challenge that television presents is that I have a tendency to say things with a great dea... BRIAN GREENE No matter how hard you try to teach your cat general relativity, you're going to fail. BRIAN GREENE The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there i... BRIAN GREENE Our eyes only see the big dimensions, but beyond those there are others that escape detection becaus... BRIAN GREENE Black holes, we all know, are these regions where if an object falls in, it can't get out, but t... BRIAN GREENE How can a speck of a universe be physically identical to the great expanse we view in the heavens ab... BRIAN GREENE Sometimes nature guards her secrets with the unbreakable grip of physical law. Sometimes the true na... BRIAN GREENE I believe we owe our young an education that captures the exhilarating drama of science. BRIAN GREENE We're on this planet for the briefest of moments in cosmic terms, and I want to spend that time ... BRIAN GREENE There's a picture of my dorm room in the college yearbook as the most messy, most disgusting roo... BRIAN GREENE My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and s... BRIAN GREENE I have long thought that anyone who does not regularly - or ever - gaze up and see the wonder and gl... BRIAN GREENE The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the ans... BRIAN GREENE The bottom line is that time travel is allowed by the laws of physics. BRIAN GREENE Intelligence is the ability to take in information from the world and to find patterns in that infor... BRIAN GREENE String theory envisions a multiverse in which our universe is one slice of bread in a big cosmic loa... BRIAN GREENE I think math is a hugely creative field, because there are some very well-defined operations that yo... BRIAN GREENE Being out at work in L.A. is the nicest place to be. You don't get depressed because of the sun ... SARAH GREENE I'm a bit of a workaholic. When I feel like I'm not doing something, it drives me insane. ASHLEY GREENE I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances. NANCY GREENE If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.' NANCY GREENE Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved. NANCY GREENE I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eatin... NANCY GREENE I've seen children's eyes light up when I tell them about black holes and the Big Bang. BRIAN GREENE We don't need to grow any more. It's not about the numbers at all. It's about the message of the Bib... ALAN GREENE There's lots of parking, plenty of parking, but people need to pay attention to the signs of how to ... ALAN GREENE There were no big surprises; it's all been good. ALAN GREENE We consider them a sponsoring church if they're doing that. ALAN GREENE I regularly have bad experiences with oils that are not certified but I have never bought a bad bott... ALAN GREENE We understand that not all churches can pull off canceling or relocating a service, ... We still con... ALAN GREENE We'll go-ahead with it and see what happens. ALAN GREENE Pound for pound, they get higher concentrations of pesticides than adults do. ALAN GREENE