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• In this deeply nuanced portrait of an American family, Bret Anthony Johnston fearlessly explores the truth behind a mythic happy ending. In Remember Me Like This, Johnston presents an incisive dismantling of an all-too-comforting fallacy: that in being found we are no longer lost.

  Alice Sebold

  Comforting, Portraits, Remember

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• At the happy ending of the Tempest, Prospero brings the kind back togeter with his son, and finds Miranda's true love and punishes the bad duke and frees Ariel and becomes a duke himself again. Everyone - except Caliban - is happy, and everyone is forgiven, and everyone is fine, and they all sail away on calm seas. Happy endings. That's how it is in Shakespeare. But Shakespeare was wrong. Sometimes there isn't a Prospero to make everything fine again. And sometimes the quality of mercy is strained.

  Gary D.

  Son, Sea, Quality

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• But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Running, Men, Stories

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.23, Macmillan

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• I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.

  Evelyn Keyes

  Girl, Fairy Stories, Fantasy

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• Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

  Ariana Franklin

  Firsts, Crime, Proof

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• All analyses end badly. Each 'termination' leaves the participants with the taste of ashes in their mouths; each is absurd; each is a small, pointless death. Psychoanalysis cannot tolerate happy endings; it casts them off the way the body's immunological system casts off transplanted organs.

  Janet Malcolm

  Ashes, Analysis, Mouths

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• I think it makes people frustrated when they have to live their actual lives commercial free and they can't just magically wind up at the part with the happy ending.

  Larry Gelbart

  Thinking, Wind, People

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You can write something that has continuity, but it makes happy endings all the more ridiculous.

  Larry Gelbart

  Writing, Make Happy, Ridiculous

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• What did a happy ending even mean in real life, anyway? In stories you simply said, 'They lived happily ever after,' and that was it. But in real life people had to keep on living, day after day, year after year.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Real, Mean, Years

  Scott Westerfeld (2014). “Afterworlds”, p.266, Simon and Schuster

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• History is replete with examples of what happens when any group of authorities do not have to answer to empirical evidence but are free to define truth as they see fit. None of the examples has a happy ending. Why should it be otherwise with therapy?

  Robert Todd Carroll

  Groups, Example, Answers

  "Repressed memory therapy (trauma-search therapy)". "The Skeptic's Dictionary" by Robert Todd Carroll, www.skepdic.com.

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• Whether or not this story has a happy ending depends, of course, on who is reading it. Whether you are a wolf or a girl.

  Kelly Link

  Girl, Reading, Stories

  Kelly Link (2008). “Pretty Monsters”, p.229, Penguin

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• In America there's a tendency to write the same book over and over because that's what sells. So in a way, my success in America has come at the expense of what I do. I haven't sold out, and I haven't taken the popular road to writing a best-selling book. I've really bucked the system. So it was necessary for me not to go and find the easy fans, the ones who want something digestible and fast with a happy ending that they can read over and over again no matter how many different books it is. I had to find fans who really wanted to think. Worldwide they all have that in common.

  Steven Tyler

  Book, Taken, Writing

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• The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Kids, Evil, Perfect

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• Fantasy-based ideologies invariably have neat happy endings where all the bad people and all the bad behavior goes away when the volume is turned up and enough force is applied.

  Steven Weber

  People, Fantasy, Behavior

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Socialist writers are made of sterner stuff than those who only let their characters steeplechase through trouble in order to comeout first in the happy ending of moral uplift.

  Christina Stead

  Uplifting, Character, Order

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• For me, a happy ending is not everything works out just right and there is a big bow, it's more coming to a place where a person has a clear vision of his or her own life in a way that enables them to kind of throw down their crutches and walk.

  Jill McCorkle

  Work Out, Vision, Way

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• Not everything has a happy ending, and not everything has an ending. Some things just kind of dribble away or cut off abruptly.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Cutting, Kind, Dribble

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• The happy ending is hardly important, though we may be glad its there. The real joy is knowing that if you felt the trouble in the story, your kingdom isnt dead.

  Lynda Barry

  Real, Knowing, Joy

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• At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Joy, Promise

  Huston Smith, Phil Cousineau (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.24, Univ of California Press

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• The making of miracles to edification was as ardently admired by pious Victorians as it was sternly discouraged by Jesus of Nazareth. Not that the Victorians were unique in this respect. Modern writers also indulge in edifying miracles though they generally prefer to use them to procure unhappy endings, by which piece of thaumaturgy they win the title of realists.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Jesus, Winning, Unique

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2015). “The Mind of the Maker”, p.58, Open Road Media

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• Whether histories have a happy ending or not depends on when the chronicler ends the tale.

  Linda Gordon

  Ends, Tales, Depends

  Linda Gordon (2011). “The Great Arizona Orphan Abduction”, p.314, Harvard University Press

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• The older you get, the more you live with ghosts.

  Nick Tosches

  Short Life, Life Is Short, Friends Come And Go

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• The older you get, the more you learn.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Short Life, Life Is Short

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• If she loved him the way she said she did, she wanted him whole. Maybe this was what love meant after all: sacrifice and selflessness. It did not mean hearts and flowers and a happy ending, but the knowledge that another's well-being is more important than one's own.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Flower, Heart, Mean

  Melissa de la Cruz (2011). “Lost In Time: Number 6 in series”, p.127, Hachette UK

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• A comedy isn’t about being funny...a comedy is about characters who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Character, May, Comedy

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