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Happy Endings Quotes (page 4)

There are so many things I can't believe. That people deserve what they get, both bad and good. That one day I'll live in a world where people are judged by what they do instead of who they are. That happy endings don't have contingencies and conditions. Jodi Picoult
A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn't have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood. E. M. Forster
The narrative compression of storytelling, especially in the movies, beguiles us with happy endings into forgetting that sustained stress is corrosive of feeling. It's the great deadener. Those moments of joyful release from terror are not so easily had. Ian Mcewan
Some people—and I am one of them—hate happy ends. We feel cheated. Harm is the norm. Doom should not jam. The avalanche stopping in its tracks a few feet above the cowering village behaves not only unnaturally but unethically. Vladimir Nabokov
When I returned home that day, I saw my life as if I already knew the happy ending of a story. I looked around the house and thought, soon I will no longer have to see these walls and all the unhappiness they keep inside. Amy Tan
[Comedies], in the ancient world, were regarded as of a higher rank than tragedy, of a deeper truth, of a more difficult realization, of a sounder structure, and of a revelation more complete. The happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth, and the divine comedy of the soul, is to be read, not as a contradiction, but as a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man.... Tragedy is the shattering of the forms and of our attachments to the forms; comedy, the wild and careless, inexhaustible joy... Joseph Campbell
Alice Munro quote: "That's something I think is growing on me as I get older:..."
That's something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings. Alice Munro
I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened. Ted Demme
William Dean Howells quote: "What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy..."
What the American public wants in the theater is a tragedy with a happy ending. William Dean Howells
Most people in America want an easy read. I call it McFiction - books which pass right through you without you even digesting them. I don't mean a book that has two-syllable words. I mean chapters you can read in a toilet break. Happy endings. We are more of a TV culture. Jodi Picoult
Katy Perry quote: "I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending."
I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending. Katy Perry
Jeanette Winterson quote: "I don't believe in happy endings."
I don't believe in happy endings. Jeanette Winterson
There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it. Ernest Hemingway
Orson Welles quote: "If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where..."
If you want a happy ending, that depends, of course, on where you stop your story. Orson Welles
Charles Haughey quote: "Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are..."
Ireland is where strange tales begin and happy endings are possible. Charles Haughey

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