Thread: Great Closing Sentences

"And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lipmusic brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal."

--A Clockwork Orange

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For us who seen it all!

"At this point in time"

So in America when the sun goes down and I sit on the old broken-down river pier watching the long, long skies over New Jersey and sense all that raw land that rolls in one unbelievable huge bulge over to the West Coast, and all that road going, all the people dreaming in the immensity of it, and in Iowa I know by now the children must be crying in the land where they let the children cry, and tonight the stars’ll be out, and don’t you know that God is Pooh Bear? the evening star must be drooping and shedding her sparkler dims on the prairie, which is just before the coming of complete night that blesses the earth, darkens all rivers, cups the peaks and folds the final shore in, and nobody, nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old, I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of Old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty.

On The Road
Jack Kerouac

Originally Posted by chay2K

"And so farewell from your little droog. And to all others in this story profound shooms of lipmusic brrrrrr. And they can kiss my sharries. But you, O my brothers, remember sometimes thy little Alex that was. Amen. And all that cal."

--A Clockwork Orange

I THOUGHT your avatar was from A Clockwork Orange. I saw that movie YEARS ago at the drive in. Loved it. I thought the style was really cool. The thing I always remember form the movie is Beethoven (5th?) and 'eggyweggies'...

Originally Posted by carlmaloschneider

I THOUGHT your avatar was from A Clockwork Orange. I saw that movie YEARS ago at the drive in. Loved it. I thought the style was really cool. The thing I always remember form the movie is Beethoven (5th?) and 'eggyweggies'...

Don't get me wrong, I love the movie too-- but it doesn't even hold a candle to the book. Burgess invented a whole new future English dialect for the book. When you read the first few pages you can't understand half of what anybody's saying-- but as you read on, you just naturally pick up on the language. It's really quite an experience! Besides, who doesn't like a story about the importance of free will?

You must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.

The Unnameable

- Samuel Beckett

It has a good opening sentence, and this as its closing paragraph...

"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."

Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

"Today is your day!
Your mountain is waiting.
So...get on your way!"

Dr. Seuss-"Oh, The Places You'll Go!"

"Isn't it pretty to think so?



The Sun also Rises-Hemingway