Famous last lines -

[pinto]

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. - Dickens

[jobycom]

1. It sure is pretty to think so. "The Sun Also Rises," Hemingway.

[pinto]

2. "So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

[curious one]

3. Scarlet, I don't give a damn! Sorry I couldn't resist.

[raccoon]

10. I think, "After all, tomorrow is another day," is the last line of GWTW. nt

[NanceGreggs]

4. That one ...

... can't be topped.

Sorry, but it just can't be.

[Hardrada]

5. Where'd all those damned Indians come from?

General George Armstrong Custer.

Proving that: It is better to be mustered out of the militia than custered out of the cavalry!

[Gwendolyn]

6. This one comes to mind lately...

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.

Animal Farm

[Orrex]

7. Welcome to DU!

:hi:

[Gwendolyn]

8. Hey Orrex, thanks!

:hi:

[Goblinmonger]

11. He loved big brother.

My offering from the same author.

[Rancid Crabtree]

9. from As I Lay Dying

might not be the very last line, but was looking at a Faulkner thread...someone wanting to know if they should read him...and older thread and didn't post there...splayed feet come to mind...but one of the memorable lines from there is the father, was it Cash, or was that the son that built the coffin...but the father, the old man, at the end says, "Now I can get them teeth."

[Princess Turandot]

12. April 27..

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

[Richardo]

13. "You'll have to jump." "I'll jump." "JUMP!"

The knife came down, missing him by inches, and he took off.

- Joseph Heller, "Catch-22"

[joshcryer]

14. 'I like long stories.'

Consider Phelbas - Ian Banks

[otherlander]

15. It came from afar and traveled sedately on, a shrug of eternity.

[Forrest Greene]

16. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

There is time, if you need the comfort, to touch the person next to you, or to reach between your own cold legs ... or, if song must find you, here's one They never taught anyone to sing, a hymn by William Slothrop, centuries forgotten and out of print, sung to a simple and pleasant air of the period. Follow the bouncing ball:

There is a Hand to turn the time,
Though thy Glass today be run,
Till the Light that hath brought the Towers low
Find the last poor Pret'rite one...
Till the Riders sleep by ev'ry road,
All through our crippl'd Zone,
With a face on ev'ry mountainside,
And a Soul in ev'ry stone...

Now everybody—

[cobalt1999]

17. “This book was born as I was hungry.”

Technically not the ending line in the story, but the official ending line of the author's note ending the book.

[Forkboy]

18. Then....some idiot turned the lights on.

From the brilliant Bradbury short story The October Game.

Which can read here;

http://lib.ru/INOFANT/BRADBURY/october.txt

[ailsagirl]

19. Albert Camus-- "The Stranger"

"It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."

[Mz Pip]

20. All are gone from

Hill House now and we who walk ther walk alone.

The Haunting of Hill House, by Shirley Jackson.