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100 best last lines from novels
American Book Review picked the 100 best last lines from novels. The top 5:1. …you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on. –Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable (1953; trans. Samuel Beckett)2. Who knows but that, on the lower frequencies, I speak for you? –Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)3. So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past. –F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great





