45 Quotes About Last-lines
- Author John Hepworth
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God, there must be a meaning. Fiercely he was certain that there must be a meaning.Surely, while we live we are not lost.Oh Janos, Janos my brother!Surely we are not lost--while we live.
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- Author Iris Murdoch
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Art is not cosy and it is not mocked. Art tells the only truth that ultimately matters. It is the light by which human things can be mended. And after art there is, let me assure you all, nothing.
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- Author Ashley Weaver
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This was the last thing we needed. I was sure we made quite a pair, me in my evening gown and Milo in his bloodstained shirt. 'Let's hurry to the car, Milo.' I made a move to descend the front steps, ready to push my way through the crowd, but Milo stopped me with a hand on my arm.'Just a moment, darling.''What is it?''Let's give them something to put in the gossip columns first, shall we?' And he pulled me to him and kissed me thoroughly in the blinding glare of the flashbulbs.
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- Author Ashley Weaver
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In the meantime, the porter's gone. How much time until we reach our next stop?'I glanced at my wristwatch, an absurd fluttery feeling in my stomach. 'Nearly an hour.''Excellent,' he said, lowering his mouth again to mine. 'Let's make the most of it.'And so we did.
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- Author Flann O'Brien
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Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.
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- Author Henry James
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I'll marry you, mind you, in an hour.""As we were?""As we were."But she turned to the door, and her headshake was now the end. "We shall never be again as we were!
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- Author Deanna Raybourn
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Of course, I did not realize it at the time, but it was to be nothing like a year before I came home again. I did not know when I would see Brisbane again, but I knew that I would. Someday.And indeed I did. That is when we found the body in the chapel. But that is a tale for another time.
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- Author Hanya Yanagihara
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It's a good story,' he said. He even grinned at me. 'I'll tell you.''Please,' I said.And then he did.
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- Author John Champlin Gardner
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They watch on, evil, incredibly stupid, enjoying my destruction.'Poor Grendel's had an accident,' I whisper. 'So may you all.
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