Wherein I lived, the greatest prince o' the world, The noblest; and do now not basely die, Not cowa. Old feelings are rekindled, though, and there's a part of Rick that just wants to keep Ilsa around for himself. ", "But I don't think us feel old at all. Her extraordinary novel Their Eyes Were Watching God fell out of print and was essentially forgotten, until Alice Walker rediscovered it in the 1970s. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Ron Charles writes about books for The Washington Post. Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked, I cried to dream again. As you probably guessed, the famous lines above open Shakespeare's comedy Twelfth Night. (Hemingway condemned this section as cheating.) But that last lonely line is pure genius. We'll take any optimism we can get from curmudgeonly Franzen, regardless of whether or not it's meant in earnest (and in this case, it seems to be). Hooper plays along with the joke, and the audience gets a laugh that breaks the tension before the credits roll. After a near-catastrophic experience that nearly erases his own existence, Marty McFly (Michael J. Ellisons masterpiece, which won the 1953 National Book Award, remade the terrain of African American fiction and American fiction. 10. Others enter into the language, take on a life of their own, and eclipse their source. Salinger (From Nine Stories ). A Complete List of Shakespeare's Plays. Elliott is visibly upset about having to part, so his intergalactic buddy lights up his finger, points it at the boy, and informs him "I'll be right here. His enemy in this case is Obadiah Stane (Jeff Bridges), his late father's old business partner, who also manages Stark Industries. He witnesses suffering and pain, capped by the emotional devastation of his partner. Considering Salingers many decades as the nations most famous recluse, were tempted, of course, to consign that same pain to the author. From classics such as George Orwells Animal Farm to L. Frank Baums The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and Jung Changs Wild Swans, weve scoured the Stylist book shelf for the best closing lines (or, in some cases to give context, the best final few lines) ever written. These days, the movie is seen as something of a modern classic, as well as a treatise on the cost of living in a world that is becoming increasingly materialistic and soulless. ", "The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which. His opponent duly humiliated, Al turns to the throng of spectators and gleefully announces "Hey, everybody! Its final scene, the culmination of a relentless series of hardships, losses and deaths, offers a moment of startling compassion and intimacy the very milk of human kindness made flesh. Toy Story 3 ends on a note that is both beautiful and sob-inducing. Salinger (1951). But, eventually, he's caught in a pinch by the Feds. For many, John Keats is the prototype of artistic genius. At the end of Henrik Ibsens play Hedda Gabler (1891), a trapped and passionate woman shoots herself in the head, and her old friend exclaims, Good God! Image: Warner Brothers/Getty Images . We're all gonna get laid!". The Usual Suspects ends with a callback in which Verbal provides a very telling quote: "The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he did not exist. After escaping a Broadway theater, the titular ape grabs Fay Wray's Ann and climbs up the Empire State Building. ", "The scar had not pained Harry for nineteen years. I got my thousand-yard stare. "From Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. At every turn, there are bribes, lies, cover-ups, and conspiracies. Sign up for the latest news and must-read features from Stylist, so you don't miss out on the conversation. Dont judge a book by its cover - instead, try and wait for the last line. His mix of treacly self-pity, witty cynicism and clinical depression speaks for millions of lonely people forced to endure a world of phonies. Inside, the agent comes to the shocking realization that he just let the real Keyser Soze get away. Its possible to measure the weight of a novel by the size of its impact crater. 1. "If music be the food of love, play on" Twelfth Night Romeo and Juliet A Midsummer Night's Dream Reveal 2. I was eager to embrace the world. But how painfully ironic that Americas most macho author should be remembered for a novel about an impotent man. If On a Winters Night a Traveler , Italo Calvino. TV, Film & Music. Finding it so much like myselfso like a brother, reallyI felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. You may deny me, but I'll be your servant, Whether you will or no. Repetition and cynicism may have reduced Tiny Tims final prayer to a saccharine cliche, but the tale of lives reformed and saved has lost none of its real sweetness. In the movie's final minutes, the limping Verbal exits the police station, and viewers see his disability immediately disappear. This is certainly one of the most famous lines of dialoguefinal or notin cinematic history. I been there before. ", "I ran with the wind blowing in my face, and a smile as wide as the valley of Panjsher on my lips. ", The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945, Wladyslaw Szpilman, "This is not a full circle. Henry's summation of it all: "I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook. ", "He didn't think about it, he went straight to a seat facing forwards, so that he could see where he was going. Shakespeare's Opening Lines: The Quiz If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning. Were you paying attention before the curtain fell? Batman knows that, if the citizens of crime-ridden Gotham learn of Dent's killing spree under his guise of Two-Face, all hope will go out the window. "From A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. The there was a knock on the door, I opened the door, and the new gerbil walked in. (Caliban, Act 3 Scene 2) Our revels now are ended. ", The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets Nest, Stieg Larsson, "Curley and Carlson looked after them. By this point in the movie, fans have fallen completely in love with E.T., so his departure affects them as much as it does Elliott. What, he asks himself, must he tell his 7-year-old son before hes carried away to imperishability? . She lures screenwriter Joe Gillis (William Holden) into her scheme. Four decades later, I can still feel the shock of reaching the end of Steinbecks novel about an Oklahoma family traveling to California in search of work. Its a deeply contemplative story about a man whose inept parents were imprisoned for bank robbery, leaving him and his twin sister to fend for themselves when they were 15. "In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment. It's Life carrying on. And Carlson said, 'Now what the hell ya suppose is eatin' them two guys? "The Maltese Falcon" "Key Largo" . For the first time they had done something out of Love. The strains of the piano and violin rose up weakly from below. "From Continental Drift by Russell Banks. No wonder she dreams of going "somewhere over the rainbow." ", The Hand That First Held Mine, Maggie O'Farrell, ''I never saw any of them again except the cops. people dont do such things. A few years later, Chopin ran right up against those same stultifying expectations in her last novel, The Awakening, about a wife and mother who falls in love with another man and begins to imagine a different life. Following a very complicated plot filled with unexpected twists and turns, Spade turns Brigid O'Shaughnessy (Mary Astor), the woman who hired him in the first place, over to the police for murder despite the fact that he has developed feelings for her. And we never forgot it. Dont ever tell anybody anything. Hazel followed; and together they slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom. I don't know why mine never turn out like hers, or why my tears flow so freely when I prepare them - perhaps I am as sensitive to onions as Tita, my great-aunt, who will go on living as long as there is someone who cooks her recipes. Rabbit eventually crawls home, determined to be better, but his flight instinct is not so easily quelled. The Marriage Plot is a cerebral romantic comedy about Madeleine, a thoroughly modern young woman who gets her ideas of love from 18th- and 19th-century fiction. Harvey Dent, thought by many to be a hero, is dead. It eats Quint (Robert Shaw), escapes an effort by Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss) to spear it with poison, then attacks Brody, who is on a sinking boat. From old-school classics like Casablanca to modern masterpieces like Inglorious Basterds, these are the most remarkable final movie lines of all time. Portrait by Sophie Herxheimer. The entire Toy Story series deals with the connection between playthings and the children who own them. "Dont ever tell anybody anything. These dramatic works encompass a wide range of subjects and styles, from the playful "A Midsummer Night's Dream" to the gloomy "Macbeth." Shakespeare's plays can be roughly divided into three . Warning: This graphic requires JavaScript. For a movie as fantastical as Back to the Future, there could be no more perfect final words, and it's not because they set up a sequel. ", "She opened the door wide and let him into her life again. You can feel the rawness as soon as it starts, as a. As a man, he makes his way into the Mafia, where he's guided by three mentors: Paulie Cicero (Paul Sorvino), Jimmy "the Gent" Conway (Robert DeNiro), and the volatile Tommy DeVito (Joe Pesci). The children were excited. ", "We each owe a death, there are no exceptions, I know that, but sometimes, oh God, the Green Mile is so long. Theologically, the story is a gooey mess of New Age mysticism, but its emotionally effective because Sebold got Susies voice just right. Following our massively popular and lovingly selected list of the 100 best opening lines from books, its now time for the closing lines to shine. He watched it leap off the end and disappear through an air vent. Wake up to the day's most important news. I carry a lot of scars. The movie used broad humor to touch on these subjects, making for an incredibly daring comedy for the time. Now, of course, his story about a handsome gangster is considered one of the greatest novels of the 20th century. But it was another girl, young and new to the city, fiddling with her keys. The now-college-aged Andy gives all his old toysincluding Buzz Lightyear and beloved cowboy doll Woodyto a little girl. Ford is better known for his books about real estate agent Frank Bascombe, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize, but this novel is his finest. This thread got me thinking, what are some famous last lines? Of course, former slaves and historians had described the horrors of slavery before, but nearly 125 years after Emancipation, Morrison made the psychological legacy of the Souths peculiar institution palpable as no other book ever had. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended. He and Rick suddenly have things of substance in common. When the applause dies down, he asks, Are there any questions? Those of us staring at a Supreme Court now tipping away from womens reproductive rights probably have several questions. A book's final sentence is the ribbon on a packaged plot, tied neatly and prettily before an author hands her story over to her readers' imaginations for good. ", Anne of Green Gables, Lucy Maud Montgomery, "And so we stayed out in the garden of the old house until we couldnt see to kick a ball, laughing in the gathering twilight, my mother and son, my wife and our daughter, making the most of the good weather and all the days that were left, our little game watched only by next doors cat, and every star in the heavens. A fitting conclusion to a book about globalization, and its power to rapidly change the world. In Grand Hotel John Barrymore plays a baron and jewel thief, Wallace Beery plays a tycoon, Joan Crawford plays a stenographer, and Greta Garbo plays a ballerina who utters an even more famous line, "I want to be alone." 4. They were uncommonly proud. ", "Of course, it's only superstition, just for fun. LONG DAY'S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT by Eugene O'Neill [1956]. ", "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved. ", "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. ", Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain, "Lastly, she pictured to herself how this same little sister of hers would, in the after-time, be herself a grown woman; and how she would keep, through all her riper years, the simple and loving heart of her childhood: and how she would gather about her other little children, and make their eyes bright and eager with many a strange tale, perhaps even with the dream of Wonderland of long ago: and how she would feel with all their simple sorrows, and find a pleasure in all their simple joys, remembering her own child-life, and the happy summer days. If you do, you start missing everybody. The land is not to be sold.' In voiceover, as Batman flees, viewers hear the cop state that "he's not our hero. South-south-west, south, south-east, east ", "I got to light out for the Territory ahead of the rest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. Best pessimistic diagnosis of a resigned and wistful generation: Yes, I said. Tarantino is known for several stellar films, and its status as a masterpiece isn't often contested. "And she comes to you, and she does not speak, and the others do not notice her, and she takes your hand, and you ready yourself to die, eyes open, aware this is all an illusion, a last aroma cast up by the chemical stew that is your brain, which will soon cease to function, and there will be nothing, and you are ready, ready to die well, ready to die like a man, like a woman, like a human, for despite all else you have loved, you have loved your father and your mother and your brother and your sister and your son and yes, your ex-wife, and you have loved the pretty girl, you have been beyond yourself, and so you have courage, and you have dignity, and you have calmness in the face of terror, and awe, and the pretty girl holds your hand, and you contain her, and this book, and me writing it, and I too contain you, who may not yet even be born, you inside me inside you, though not in a creepy way, and so may you, may I, may we, so may we all of us confront the end. Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936) Set around the American Civil War, the Pulitzer-winning epic about collapsing worlds, rape and murder, slavery, starvation, war and doomed love not only gave literature the most brutal break up line in literature ("My dear, I don't give a damn"), but also one of the most hopeful final flourishes. Perhaps the greatest failure of American literature, which is so bravely explicit about all other aspects of life, is its nervous avoidance of anything explicitly religious. Eventually, all is revealed to be a dream, one from which she gladly awakens. Everything will crumble. I justgave me a turn." He is attacked by planes circling the building, shooting at him. If he ever had a reason to hate the water, it would be after the harrowing experience he's just had. The right parting words help to drive the story's theme home in a meaningful way, encapsulating its entire point. Previously, their dealings were driven by individual self-interest. Huck Finn is the most contentious Great American Novel. ' Et tu Brute ' is the definitive accusation of someone who has deceived you or let you down. Of course, Eugenides is also echoing the end of James Joyces Ulysses, whose last extraordinary sentence is about 4,000 words long and ends with Molly Blooms boundless enthusiasm: yes I said yes I will Yes., Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell (1949). The next day, Tony stands at a press conference and makes a stunning confession: "the truth is, I am Iron Man.". At that moment, McCarthy suddenly breaks away from his characters and describes trout that once swam in mountain streams. Give me some wine, and let me speak a little. Henry wanted to become a mobster specifically so he wouldn't have to live life as an average Joe. She's considering the idea, too. It's why Batman, Spider-Man, and so many others wear masks. A beautiful, or at least effective, final sentence anchors a story in a reader's mind long after the book is finished. What Jack tells Marla at the end of the film underscores the primary idea behind the story which is that he has lost himself and can't quite find his way back. E.T. How brilliant to end the novel with the grieving creature drifting away into the vast darkness and whiteness at the end of the world. This Civil War story cleverly blends biographical details about the real Bronson Alcott, Louisa Mays father, with elements of the fictional Mr. March, who has gone south to serve as a chaplain to Union soldiers. 11. A Perfect Day for Bananafish, J.D. So many heroes invent personas specifically to prevent anyone from discovering their true identity. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate. His name, along with Shakespeare 's, is nearly synonymous with English verse. ", "The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the utmost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness. Given that Caddyshack is filled with undertones about prejudice of all stripes, Al's victory statement sends a message that a new day has dawned at Bushwood. Here are 21 of our favorite last lines in literature: "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. The most excellently crafted, strange, funny and ambiguous ending I have ever met: They said, please, please make love with Helen, we require an assertion of value, we are frightened. Most widely debated and surprising-yet-inevitable suicide-based ending ever: Then he went over and sat down on the unoccupied twin bed, looked at the girl, aimed the pistol, and fired a bullet through his right temple. Not so Gilead, the first book in Robinsons Pulitzer Prize-winning trilogy about two families in Iowa. How now, spirit! This pays off in the final scene, where they're driving a yacht away from a pier. It's dusty and desolate, and there's not much to do. Others leave us hanging, and still others provide a cathartic sense of closure. Twilight came on. It's Chinatown.". The Lovely Bones, by Alice Sebold (2002). From classics such as George Orwell's Animal Farm to L. Frank Baum's T he Wonderful Wizard of Oz, Stylist rounds up the most memorable 100 last lines from literature ever written. Because, whilst the beginning of a book may get all the glory, its the ending that really stays with you. Rick wants to help Ilsa and her husband escape to America. "This game is seven-card stud" A Streetcar Named Desire Journey's End Dealer's Choice Reveal 2. Tony Stark, never one to do things in a conventional manner, defies tradition by letting the world know who the iron-clad hero they've been following really is. Darcy, as well as Elizabeth, really loved them; and they were both ever sensible of the warmest gratitude towards the persons who, by bringing her into Derbyshire, had been the means of uniting them. "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Rick speaks it later in the movie to bid Ilsa farewell and the odd, unsentimental phrase has come to be one of the most romantic . Everything about The Matrix is designed to make the viewer's head spin. Now, they are on the same side of a political cause. Here's to it!" Anthony Marston "I'm all right now. ", "'Rest assured, our father, rest assured. "A sound of clicking heels on the pavement punctured the quiet. The novels final scenes of physical torture including the gruesome rat helmet are undeniably terrifying, but whats most chilling is the governments success at twisting the very minds of its subjects. I smoke a little dope. Ominous and syntactically exciting, this final line brings Conrad's dark novel full circle. 12. The Falls, George Saunders (From Pastoralia ). Professor Pieixoto describes the challenges of transcribing the story weve just read from 30 cassette tapes found in an army footlocker. Hamlet ponders life, death, and the merits . ", "Again and again I called out for Midori from the dead centre of this place that was no place. But see how fast the smoke rises--oh, even faster when we laugh, lifting our hopes, higher and higher. Tortured by loneliness, the monster ultimately flees to the North Pole, and the doctor dies in pursuit. The children cheered wildly. It floats through the balcony doors and makes the curtains dance. Surely we have learned by now that such judgments are of necessity culture-specific. The lessons of the past, he notes chillingly, are obscured by the passage of time. You can see in this novels last words how successfully Moore switches registers. That final line, with its simple, imploring repetition, concludes the novel with just the right spirit of affirmation and regret. It pulls together elements from a lot of disparate influences to ask what reality is and how anyone could really know if what they are experiencing is real. Some of those great final lines remain markers of our favorite novels, holy relics of our most cherished reading experiences. O, let me cry. quiz, Canyou identify the first lines of these plays? "Oh, Jake, Brett said, we could have had such a damned good time together. Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. This writers personal favorite. Her first book, Barracoon, never found a publisher during her lifetime. We can stop at Mancini's and have a little dinner on the way. "From The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. His administrations unprecedented readiness to lie and to repeat lies aggressively reminds many readers of the Party that rules Oceania. There is no better portrayal of 20th-century white men than the Pulitzer Prize-winning Rabbit series, which went on to include Rabbit Redux, Rabbit Is Rich, Rabbit at Rest and the novella Rabbit Remembered. Each book ends with an echo of the first novels last word, a subtle coda that ties together the stages of Rabbits life. Quiz: whose review is it anyway? ", The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway, "Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper. ", "My husband remained there some time after me to settle our affairs, and at first I had intended to go back to him, but at his desire I altered that resolution, and he is come over to England also, where we resolve to spend the remainder of our years in sincere penitence for the wicked lives we have lived. Brilliant. "Up out of the lampshade, startled by the overhead light, flew a large nocturnal butterfly that began circling the room. Its also worth noting that Mitchell didnt coin the phrase; it appeared as a well-known maxim in the first volume of Harpers Weekly in 1857. The Grapes of Wrath, The Concord Public Library in Massachusetts banned it soon after it was published. The movie's theme could not be laid out any more succinctly; The Wizard of Oz is about a number of things, but nothing more than the idea of home. Part of HuffPost News. ", "And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea. Odenigbo took her in his arms. His testimony, sealed with that line from King Lear, is enough to convert anyone to the power of great fiction. Sure, Kansas feels dull to Dorothy, but it's where the people who love her are. Angsty teens everywhere can relate to Holden's desire to quell his heightened emotions. The Matrix, released in 1999, dazzled audiences with its then-groundbreaking visuals and trippy philosophical elements. "From In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. "There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air." "The Awakening," by Kate Chopin (1899) At the end of Henrik Ibsen's play "Hedda Gabler" (1891), a trapped and passionate. "But that is another tale, and as I said in the beginning, this is just a story meant to be read in bed in an old house on a rainy night. Ending an entire book in the middle of a sentence is a bold and playful choice. Advertisement Famous Last Lines in Movies Quiz. Most Beckettian closing to a Beckett novel: Perhaps its done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I dont know, Ill never know, in the silence you dont know, you must go on, I cant go on, Ill go on. Lorrie Moore, one of the best short story writers alive, once said, The end of a story is really everything, and for many years it seemed she had abandoned novel writing altogether. Censors objections have shifted over the years (from truancy to the n-word), but its been banned in parts of the country ever since. This is a moment of much-needed levity after the nail-biting intensity of the final battle which everything else in Jaws skillfully builds toward. "She closes her eyes again and I begin to sing softly: Hoping that this time it will remain a lullaby. "Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past. He watched it scurry away, over his hand. ", "His body stirs beneath the sheets. ", Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, "When they finally did dare it, at first with stolen glances then candid ones, they had to smile. During its initial release in 1999, Fight Club was widely misunderstood. by Charles Dickens (1843). The mystery ends with a revelation of incest, the death of a major character, and a lot of bad people still left to do their thing. In response to that challenge, 18-year-old Mary Shelley conceived of the worlds most famous monster. But even more arresting is the books moral struggle to understand and forgive his parents failings and his own. The plays . Scholars of Elizabethan drama believe that William Shakespeare wrote at least 38 plays between 1590 and 1612. ", "It's funny. Americans have consistently called Mitchells Pulitzer Prize-winning novel one of their very favorites. In the final pages, the narrator knows some readers will continue to ignore the relevance of his life: Youll fail to see how any principle that applies to you could apply to me. But he knows thats not true. By Benjamin Voigt. A stormy wind rattled the scrap-iron in the ruins, whistling and howling through the charred cavities of the windows. While nowhere close to historically accurate, it's a fine example of cinematic wish fulfillment. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Extra-Terrestrial. The first lines of Leo Tolstoy's 1873 novel are some of the most famous of all time. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me. ", "It begins like this: Barrabs came to us by sea", "He now has more patients than the devil himself could handle; the authorities treat him with deference and public opinion supports him. When we first meet 26-year-old Harry Rabbit Angstrom, he decides on a whim to run away from his wife and toddler. A flubbed dismount sullies even the most awe-inspiring routine. Interesting cinematography and engaging introductory scenes are vital to reel viewers into a film, but a final line is perhaps even more important. quiz. Moments. It'd be a glaring omission to not mention Fitzgerald's oft-quoted thesis about the American Dream. "From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. The Usual Suspects isn't just a movie; it's a magic trick. Anyone who has ever seen Se7en cannot forget its harrowing ending. Yes, I said. This novel, about a man and his little boy walking through an apocalyptic wasteland, mesmerized and terrified readers. James and the Giant Peach. He convinces Lt. Jim Gordon (Gary Oldman) to let him take responsibility for the murders to avoid the dispiriting consequences. 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