A bad beginning makes a bad ending.
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Variant: A bad ending follows a bad beginning.
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Melanippe the Wise (fragment).Euripides
All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
James Clavell
I have read a rondeau or rondel by Marzials in the Athenaeum beginning and ending "When I see you": it was very graceful and shewing an art and finish rare in English verse. This makes me the more astonished about Flop flop.
Theo Marzials
Everything has an ending: there will be
An ending one sad day for you and me,
And ending of the days we had together,
The good companionship, all kinds of weather.Katharine Tynan
It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...
Randall Jarrell
The procrastinator dreads beginning, the workaholic, ending.
James Richardson
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