It is rare for a novel to have an ending as good as its middle and beginning...
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“An Unread Book”, p. 25Randall Jarrell
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All stories have a beginning, a middle and an ending, and if they're any good, the ending is a beginning.
James Clavell
In fact, this infinitesimally spread-out consciousness is a direct feeling of its contents as spread out. In an infinitesimal interval we directly perceive the temporal sequence of its beginning, middle, and end... Now upon this interval follows another, whose beginning is the middle of the former, and whose middle is the end of the former. Here we have an immediate perception of the temporal sequence of its beginning, middle and end, or say, of the second, third, and fourth instants.
Charles Sanders Peirce
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.
George Burns
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
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