A Quote by Shel Silverstein
There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, So just give me a happy middle And a very happy start.
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People generally like happy endings, which is something I learned from my years in advertising. I like happy endings myself, but only if they're honest. I'm just as happy with a terrible, hopeless ending.
If you are interested in happy endings, you would be better off reading some other book. In this book, not only is there no happy ending, there is no happy beginning and very few happy things in the middle. This is because not very many happy things happened in the lives of the three Baudelaire youngsters.
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.
I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.
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