03/07/23 Grif.Net - Last Line Quiz
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[Many know famous novels by their FIRST lines. But what about how they end? Here are the LAST lines of a dozen famous books. Some well-known, some obscure, some self-evident, some cryptic. Your job is to guess BOOK (and AUTHOR if you know it). That is tough for me. See how your memory holds up.
This is a quiz for YOUR brain, not your ability to google or (if you’re really old) open pages of an encyclopedia or anything else that might cheat you from hard mental exercise.]
EXAMPLE: "But that is the beginning of a new story - the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended."
ANSWER: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
1. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
2. "After all, tomorrow is another day."
3. "He turned out the light and went into Jem's room. He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning."
4. "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."
5. "But wherever they go, and whatever happens to them on the way, in that enchanted place on the top of the Forest a little boy and his bear will always be playing."
6. "The old man was dreaming about the lions."
7. "He loved Big Brother."
8. "It is not often that someone comes along who is a true friend and a good writer. Charlotte was both."
9. "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
10. "Later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."
11. "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed by the Creator into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved."
12. "Oh, my girls, however long you may live, I never can wish you a greater happiness than this."
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Dr Bob Griffin
"Jesus Knows Me, This I Love!"
