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“But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.”

Mean Ends Path Doors

Author:John Slattery

“At the end of my suffering/there was a door.”

Ends Suffering Doors

Author:Louise Glück

“I always hated those fantasy books where, at the end, all the kids had to go home. At the end of a Narnia book, you always got shown the door. Same with The Wizard Of Oz and The Phantom Tollbooth. You get kicked out of your magic land. It's like, "By the way, here's your next surprise: You get to go home!" And the kids are all like, "Yay, we get to go home!" I never bought that. Did anybody buy that?”

Way Book Ends Home Kids Next Fantasy Doors Magic Land Surprise Hated Wizards Phantoms Narnia Fantasy Books Phantom Tollbooth Yay

Author:Lev Grossman

“When ice appears out of doors, and boys seize it up while it is solid, at first they experience new pleasures. But in the end their pride will not agree to let it go, but their acquisition is not good for them if it stays in their hands. In the same way an identical desire drives lovers to act and not to act.”

Ifs Way Firsts Ends Hands Desire Pleasure Boys Doors Pride Lovers Agree Ice Let It Go Identical Acquisition

Book:Sophocles: Fragments

Source: Sophocles: Fragments

“The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.”

Art Ends Next House Five Doors Bed Strategy Studios Available Pace

Author:Sara Genn

“We're all like the little sailor. From the harbors we hear the strains of accordions and the murky soapy noises of the docks, from the mountains we receive the dish of silence that the shepherds eat, but we don't hear more than our own distances. And what distances without end and without doors and without mountains!”

Littles Ends Silence Doors Mountain Distance Noise Dishes Strain Harbors Sailor Shepherds Docks Accordions

Author:Federico Garcia Lorca

“Jehovah's Witness are welcomed into my home...You gotta respect anybody who gets all dressed up in Sunday clothes and goes door-to-door on days so hot their high heels sink a half-inch into the pavement.The trick is to do all the talking yourself. Pretty soon, they'll look at their watches and say, 'Speaking of end times, wouldja look at what time it is now!”

Looks Ends Home Half Talking Watches Doors Clothes Hot Tricks Witness Sunday Inches Heels End Times High Heels Dressed Up Jehovah Pavement

Author:Celia Rivenbark

“The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.”

People Want Doe Ends Government Levels Doors Bureaucrats Closed Doors Doorstep Manila Metro

Author:Gloria Macapagal Arroyo