Mitchell's famous last lines are at once heartbreaking and hopeful. Its a monstrously selfish act borne of panic over his lost youth and the soul-crushing responsibilities of adult life. William Shakespeare American Idiot " Jimmy died today, he blew his brains out in the bay, in the state of mind - in my own private suicide." St. Jimmy And Then There Were None "The legal life's narrowing. the heroines decision to walk into the sea and drown herself. 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. "From The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. There is deep, delicious irony in this line. ", "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. It's the choice we make to get on with it. Rabbit eventually crawls home, determined to be better, but his flight instinct is not so easily quelled. I agree with the second part.". His eyes, she sees, are open. Harvey Dent, thought by many to be a hero, is dead. Then she feels a pressure on her hand and he speaks his first words for a week. His administrations unprecedented readiness to lie and to repeat lies aggressively reminds many readers of the Party that rules Oceania. ", "'Rest assured, our father, rest assured. Then, Doc arrives in the DeLorean, informing him that there's a personal crisis in his future. Egan's theme of using music and sounds to convey nostalgia is wrapped up neatly here, and she paints the characters' lives as cyclical, like the playing of a favorite record. 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. Marty asks if there are roads in the future, to which Doc (Christopher Lloyd) replies, "Roads? "From The Tempest by William Shakespeare. The point, driven home so forcefully in those five words, is that corruption is so deeply ingrained in the situation Jake is investigating that he's wasting his time trying to expose or change it. After ratting out Paulie and Jimmy, he enters the Witness Protection Program. Stane has a personal agenda that involves manipulating the company for his own personal gain. The Catcher in the Rye , J.D. ", "Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and, after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. We don't think so. . Dont ever tell anybody anything. We arrive at the final page in a state of utter desolation. ", "Because it is written that you reap what you sow, and the boy had sown good corn. No name can be read there. Best reason to go adventuring in Wonderland: 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. (Caliban, Act 3 Scene 2) Our revels now are ended. Helen came and embraced me. One of the most-quoted lines from Casablanca, "Here's looking at you, kid," is one that Humphrey Bogart ad-libbed during the flashback scenes of Rick and Ilsa falling in love in Paris. Everything revolves around the identity of a mysterious criminal named Keyser Soze. On the ground, a police officer looks at the dead ape and says that the planes killed him. THE 101 GREATEST PLAYS FROM THE PAST 100 YEARS (1920-2020} 1. Renault, for starters, has come around and decided to take up the Allied cause. ", "He reached the top of the bank in a single, powerful leap. When we first meet 26-year-old Harry Rabbit Angstrom, he decides on a whim to run away from his wife and toddler. Hint. The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925). Salinger. 6 on PBSs Great American Reads. But like several of our most popular books Im looking at you, To Kill a Mockingbird its immortality has been buttressed by an exceptionally memorable film adaptation. They win, much to the judge's dismay. There are few lines in all of cinema as cynical as that one. He wanted money and power and influence, and he had those things. . "From My Antonia by Willa Cather. "The Maltese Falcon" "Key Largo" . Advertisement. Where we're going, we don't need roads!" 2. In Sunset Boulevard, Gloria Swanson plays Norma Desmond, a one-time silent film star who dreams of being a big deal again. Hooper plays along with the joke, and the audience gets a laugh that breaks the tension before the credits roll. (Hamlet) "To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the . "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." The offing was barred by a black bank of clouds, and the tranquil waterway leading to the uttermost ends of the earth flowed sombre under an overcast sky seemed to lead into the heart of an immense darkness.From The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The Broom of the System, David Foster Wallace. It is based on the true story of Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), a guy who grew up idolizing gangsters as a kid. Wake up to the day's most important news. In the movie's final minutes, the limping Verbal exits the police station, and viewers see his disability immediately disappear. TV, Film & Music. As the movie wraps up, Somerset, in voiceover, says, "Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting for.' ", "He turned away to give them time to pull themselves together; and waited, allowing his eyes to rest on the trim cruiser in the distance. It's a last chance for a good first impression. That contrast is most evident in the final moments. 10 quizzes and 105 trivia questions. 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. Matter of fact, I think this the youngest us ever felt. A sudden breeze over the Tigris forms a tiny whirlwind. We follow them across hundreds of thousands of words, but the final line can make or break a book. Together, they attempt to assemble a "phone" that E.T. They succeed, and, in the end, they're forced to say an emotional goodbye before the little Reese's Pieces-eater hops on his starship. His story about a reformed miser was an immediate bestseller, and, a few years later, he began offering public readings that attracted enormous crowds in England and America. ", "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. Most last minute revelation for a previously utterly stubborn, unchanging character, finally accepting the facts of the universe in the face of his execution: As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the benign indifference of the world. I am haunted by humans. A character in one of Jess Walters novels says, A book can only end one of two ways: truthfully or artfully. Alas, most dont end truthfully or artfully, but there are rare exceptions: novels that conclude with such gracefully calibrated language that we close the back cover and feel physically imprinted, as though the words were pressed into us by a weight we can hardly fathom. I am serious, and dont call me Shirley. Only after getting away from it for a while does she realize just how happy she is there. It is true that there is nothing like a blaze in the hearth to soothe the nerves and restore order to a house. "From Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Only months after it was published, Fitzgerald referred to Gatsby as a flop, and copies of the second printing were gathering dust in the publishers warehouse 15 years later when he died. Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill This autobiographical play about O'Neill's young adulthood scorches from start to finish. by Charles Dickens (1843). 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. Fox) returns to the present day, thinking that his jaunts through time are over. Quiz: whose review is it anyway? "From The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami. ", Where the Wild Things Are, Maurice Sendak, "I wrote at the start that this was a record of hate, and walking there beside Henry towards the evening glass of beer, I found the one prayer that seemed to serve the winter mood: O God, You've done enough, You've robbed me of enough, I'm too tired and old to learn to love, leave me alone forever. ", "The eyes and faces all turned themselves towards me, and guiding myself by them, as by a magical thread, I stepped into the room. The story he tells sometimes horrific, sometimes absurd, often both takes him across the country, from a Southern state college for Negroes to Harlem, where he falls in and out with a black activist group. When a film has the perfect final line, the audience goes home on a high, and these are some of the very best examples of that. The Usual Suspects isn't just a movie; it's a magic trick. ", "And then, while the pretty brunette girl finished singing her verse, he buzzed me through like I was someone who mattered. He has just been awarded the Cross of the Legion of Honor. He no longer needs them and decides to leave them in the hands of a child who will love them the way he did. Give me some wine, and let me speak a little. Perhaps they will be answered in a sequel that Atwood plans to publish in September called The Testaments., Invisible Man, by Ralph Ellison (1952). Ominous and syntactically exciting, this final line brings Conrad's dark novel full circle. 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