Closed Ended

Famous quotes containing the words closed and/or ended:

“She was so overcome by the splendor of his achievement that she took him into the closet and selected a choice apple and delivered it to him, along with an improving lecture upon the added value and flavor a treat took to itself when it came without sin through virtuous effort. And while she closed with a Scriptural flourish, he “hooked” a doughnut.”
—Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835–1910)

“He had the kind of merriment a man sometimes knows when events have ended in utter disaster.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)