Quotes with back-end

Quotes 1061 till 1080 of 1547.

  • John Updike That a marriage ends is less than ideal; but all things end under heaven, and if temporality is held to be invalidating, then nothing real succeeds.
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Francis Quarles That friendship will not continue to the end which is begun for an end.
    Francis Quarles
    British poet (1592 - 1644)
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  • Beth Henley That was always my inclination, to start on a new play before the other one gets done, because at least you'll have something to go back to if that play gets trashed.
    Beth Henley
    American playwright, screenwriter, and actress (1952 - )
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  • Anthony Holden That was par for the course but I also found that commissions were being canceled and in fact I considered this directly libelous - I write biographies for a living as well as being a journalist - for a non fiction book to be called fiction from beginning to end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Bai Juyi That we wished to fly in heaven, two birds with the wings of one,
    And to grow together on the earth, two branches of one tree.
    Earth endures, heaven endures; some time both shall end,
    While this unending sorrow goes on and on for ever.
    The Song of Long Sorrow
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  • Carlton Cuse That's one of the reasons why 'Lost' has to end: because we can't sit around and envision, 'What is the flashback for Jack in year nine?' It doesn't realistically exist.
    Carlton Cuse
    American screenwriter, producer, and director (1959 - )
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  • Anderson Cooper That's the thing about suicide. Try as you might to remember how a person lived his life, you always end up thinking about how he ended it.
    Anderson Cooper
    American television journalist (1967 - )
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  • Anthony Holden Thatcher came under pressure from right wing backbenchers to shut up the Prince of Wales and there was a deal done between them where he did actually shut up in the end.
    Anthony Holden
    English writer, broadcaster and critic
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  • Seneca The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Alfred de Vigny The acts of the human race on the world's stage have doubtless a coherent unity, but the meaning of the vast tragedy enacted will be visible only to the eye of God, until the end, which will reveal it perhaps to the last man.
    Alfred de Vigny
    French poet and writer (1797 - 1863)
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  • Ernest Hemingway The age demanded that we dance and jammed us into iron pants. And in the end the age was handed the sort of shit that it demanded.
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Edmund White The AIDS epidemic has rolled back a big rotting log and revealed all the squirming life underneath it, since it involves, all at once, the main themes of our existence: sex, death, power, money, love, hate, disease and panic. No American phenomenon has been so compelling since the Vietnam War.
    Edmund White
    American novelist and LGBT essayist (1940 - )
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  • Benjamin Watson The amazing thing about a football team is we can disagree and fight like brothers, but then we come back together. We are able to be open and honest about things that may offend us.
    Benjamin Watson
    American football player (1980 - )
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  • Arthur Miller The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less.
    Arthur Miller
    American Dramatist (1915 - 2005)
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  • Ezra Pound The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Walter Benjamin The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Nelson Algren The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.
    Nelson Algren
    American writer (1909 - 1981)
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  • Tom Stoppard The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Ben Stein The banks are not lending, at least from what I see. They were so wild and reckless back in the good times that they got burned terribly.
    Ben Stein
    American professor, writer
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  • George Harrison The Beatles exist apart from my Self. I am not really Beatle George. Beatle George is like a suit or shirt that I once wore on occasion and until the end of my life people may see that shirt and mistake it for me.
    George Harrison
    English musician, singer and songwriter (1943 - 2001)
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