A Quote by Samuel R. Delany
Endings to be useful must be inconclusive.
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My family doesn't do happy endings. We do sad endings or frustrating endings or no endings at all. We are hardwired to expect the next interruption or disappearance or broken promise.
When we're young, we like happy endings. When we're a little older, we think happy endings are unrealistic and so we prefer bad but credible endings. When we're older still, we realize happy endings aren't so bad after all.
I'm not an endings person. I don't do endings. There may have been people in the band who wanted this to be an ending from time to time, but me and Amy don't really do endings. You cannot escape from us. Once we're friends with you, that's it.
And in real life endings aren't always neat, whether they're happy endings, or whether they're sad endings.
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
Not only are there no happy endings,' she told him, 'there aren't even any endings.
There are no endings, and never will be endings, to the turning of the Wheel of Time. But it was an ending.
I'm a hopeful romantic who adores novels with happy endings, because there are enough sad endings in real life.
I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster. … The temptation towards resolution, towards wrapping up the package, seems to me a terrible trap. Why not be more honest with the moment? The most authentic endings are the ones which are already revolving towards another beginning. That’s genius.
Sometimes love does not have the most honorable beginnings, and the endings, the endings will break you in half. It's everything in between we live for.
Unhappy endings can be as cheap as happy endings.
A record, if it is to be useful to science, must be continuously extended, it must be stored, and above all it must be consulted.
I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.
I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
In my newspaper days, your endings could be literally sliced off in the composing room, so it was dangerous to get attached to them. Yet I think this has made me work harder on endings in fiction.
Happy endings are still endings.
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