Happy Endings Quotes - Page 2

• True stories seldom have endings. I don't want a happy ending, I want more story.

  Frances Hardinge

  Stories, Want, True Story

  "Fly by Night". Book by Frances Hardinge, October 7, 2005.

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• You want happy endings, read cookbooks.

  Dean Young

  Want, Cookbook

  Dean Young (2007). “Embryoyo”, McSweeneys Books

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• You know not every book has to have a happy ending, but it has to have a satisfying ending.

  Lurlene McDaniel

  Book, Knows, Satisfying

  Source: bookpage.com

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• Happy endings make me puke.

  Roman Polanski

  Puke

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• I want my stories to be something about life that causes people to say, not, oh, isn't that the truth, but to feel some kind of reward from the writing, and that doesn't mean that it has to be a happy ending or anything, but just that everything the story tells moves the reader in such a way that you feel you are a different person when you finish.

  Alice Munro

  Moving, Writing, Mean

  FaceBook post by Alice Munro from Oct 01, 2014

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• If you enjoy books with happy endings than you are better off reading some other book.

  Daniel Handler

  Book, Reading, Enjoy

  "The Bad Beginning". Book by Lemony Snicket, 1999.

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• I find it ironic that happy endings now are called fairytale endings because there's nothing happy about most fairytale endings.

  Joe Wright

  Ironic, Fairytale, Fairytale Ending

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• Pride' is my first film with a happy ending. Before, I naively thought they were a cop-out, but now I've come to believe that happy endings and wish fulfilment are an incredibly important part of our cultural life.

  Joe Wright

  Believe, Pride, Wish

  "Meet the puppet master" by Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2005.

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• I usually make up stories for my kids.I like to tell them stories and make up any kind of crazy to involve them in characters. The kind of fairytales I don't like are the ones with happy endings, where there's just good and evil and things are perfect. I think when there's a good story for children it has a moral tale, so that's what I try to teach my kids.

  Angelina Jolie

  Children, Crazy, Character

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• After all, no one is ever taken in by the happy ending, but we are often divinely fuddled by the tragic curtain.

  Lionel Trilling

  Taken, Curtains, Tragic

  Lionel Trilling (1963). “Matthew Arnold”

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• If we had happy endings, we’d all be under gravestones now.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Gravestone, Eclipse

  Stephenie Meyer (2008). “Eclipse”, Little Brown & Company

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• Life is a movie, and you're the star. Give it a happy ending.

  Joan Rivers

  Stars, Giving, Life Is

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• I was running the risk in Adventureland, even though we stayed close to the script, because I wanted it to be not a schematic movie. For better or worse, it's not a wish-fulfillment movie. It's got a kind of happy ending, but it's not like I forgot to put on the "Ten years later," and they've got four kids and a dog. Those guys are not together today. It always was leading up to the moment of "Oh, I have my first girlfriend." Credits.

  Greg Mottola

  Running, Dog, Girlfriend

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• A comedy isn't about being funny," said Mrs. Baker. "We talked about this before." "A comedy is about character who dare to know that they may choose a happy ending after all. That's how I know." "Suppose you can't see it?" "That's the daring part," said Mrs. Baker.

  Gary D. Schmidt

  Character, Bakers, May

  Gary D. Schmidt (2009). “The Wednesday Wars”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is no such thing as a happy ending. I never met a single one to equal "Once upon a time.

  Stephen King

  Once Upon A Time, Mets, Equal

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• It has long been a tradition among novel writers that a book must end by everybody getting just what they wanted, or if the conventional happy ending was impossible, then it must be a tragedy in which one or both should die. In real life very few of us get what we want, our tragedies don't kill us, but we go on living them year after year, carrying them with us like a scar on an old wound.

  Willa Cather

  Real, Book, Writing

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• An early editor characterized my books as 'romantic comedy for intelligent adults.' I think people see them as funny but kind. I don't set out to write either funny or kind, but it's a voice they like, quirky like me... And you know, people like happy endings.

  Elinor Lipman

  Book, Writing, Intelligent

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• Maybe my movie isn't over, I say, because sometimes moviemakers trick the audience with a false bad ending, and just when you think the movie is going to end badly, something dramatic happens, which leads to the happy ending. This seems like a good spot for something dramatic to happen, especially since it's my birthday.

  Matthew Quick

  Thinking, My Birthday, Sometimes

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• People who live in difficult circumstances need to know that happy endings are possible. Page 1.

  Sonia Sotomayor

  People, Needs, Pages

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• If you want a happy ending you have to go out and take it.

  Michael Buckley

  Want, Ifs

  Michael Buckley (2011). “The Sisters Grimm: Book Seven: The Everafter War”, p.214, Abrams

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• At the time, I didn't know why, but I know now that when I was a little boy, I was scared to death of the Frankenstein films ... and in all these years later, I wanted it to come out with a happy ending, and I think it was my fear of the Frankenstein movies when I was 8 and 9 and 10 years old that made me want to write that story [Young Frankenstein].

  Gene Wilder

  Writing, Boys, Thinking

  Source: keranews.org

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• Everyday is an oportunity to make a new happy ending.

  Albert Einstein

  Everyday

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• Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.

  Tim Robbins

  Trying, Done, Want

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• Happy Endings are an illusion. Real life is filled with brief moments of fleeting happiness, but ultimately every life is a tragedy that ends in death and grief.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Real, Grief, Tragedy

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• Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.

  Hanif Kureishi

  Mean, Son, Thinking

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