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If Backwards Day made me think of opening lines, perhaps I need psychoanalysis, because Groundhog Day made me think of closing lines... the greatest of all, IMHO...
1. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the
past. –F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
2. He loved Big Brother. –George Orwell, 1984(1949)
3. ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far
better rest that I go to than I have ever known.’ –Charles Dickens, A Tale of
Two Cities (1859)
4. I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths
fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing
through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.–Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
(1847)
5. 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. –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
6. And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! –Charles Dickens,
A Christmas Carol (1843)
7. “All that is very well,” answered Candide, “but let us cultivate our
garden.” –Voltaire, Candide (1759)
8. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that
enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always
be playing. –A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
9. From here on in I rag nobody. –Mark Harris, Bang the Drum Slowly
(1956)
10. “Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is
another day.” –Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
1. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the
past. –F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (1925)
2. He loved Big Brother. –George Orwell, 1984(1949)
3. ‘It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far
better rest that I go to than I have ever known.’ –Charles Dickens, A Tale of
Two Cities (1859)
4. I lingered round them, under that benign sky; watched the moths
fluttering among the heath, and hare-bells; listened to the soft wind breathing
through the grass; and wondered how any one could ever imagine unquiet slumbers for the sleepers in that quiet earth.–Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
(1847)
5. 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. –Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
6. And so, as Tiny Tim observed, God bless Us, Every One! –Charles Dickens,
A Christmas Carol (1843)
7. “All that is very well,” answered Candide, “but let us cultivate our
garden.” –Voltaire, Candide (1759)
8. But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that
enchanted place on the top of the Forest, a little boy and his Bear will always
be playing. –A. A. Milne, The House at Pooh Corner (1928)
9. From here on in I rag nobody. –Mark Harris, Bang the Drum Slowly
(1956)
10. “Tomorrow, I’ll think of some way to get him back. After all, tomorrow is
another day.” –Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind (1936)
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