# Perfect last lines.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [September 28, 2008, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531 "2008-09-28T02:46:08Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 3
### Author:  [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/41 "2008-09-29T02:55:42Z")
Book, not movie.
“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.”
It’s difficult to top The Ten Commandments.
“Proclaim liberty throughout all the land, unto all the inhabitants thereof”
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### Author:  [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/42 "2008-09-29T02:57:35Z")
> [@jk1245](#):
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> Crap. How could I have forgotten probably my favorite one form a movie??
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> [Quote=Rita Hayworth and The Shawshank Redemption]
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> I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams.
> I hope
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{{{ **jk1245** }}}
God, I love that book (and movie.)
“He would be there all night, and he would be there when Jem waked up in the morning.”
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### Author:  [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/43 "2008-09-29T03:13:46Z")
Oh, and another:
_So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past._
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### Author:  [@laughingboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/laughingboy)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/44 "2008-09-29T03:19:41Z")
> [@blondebear](#):
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> _“The Dude abides.”_
Great line from a great movie, but not the last line:
“Say, friend, you got any more of that good sarsaparilla?”
For my contribution, here are the last few lines from my favorite movie. Bonus points to those who can identify it without googling.
“How do you know they’ll print it? You can take a walk, but how far if they don’t print it?”
“They’ll print it.”
“How do you know?”
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### Author:  [@Properties\_of\_Iron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Properties_of_Iron)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/45 "2008-09-29T03:27:22Z")
I’m sorry for all your last line book suggestions, but besides the Great Gatsby line, there’s a line that tops all of the rest.
“He loved Big Brother.”
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### Author:  [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/46 "2008-09-29T04:45:54Z")
“Are you still here? It’s over. Go home - Go!” - _Ferris Bueller’s Day Off_
In another movie, can’t remember which one, the last line of the credits says “If you’d left when the credits started, you’d be home by now.”
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/47 "2008-09-29T05:19:00Z")
> [@Rhubarb](#):
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> In another movie, can’t remember which one, the last line of the credits says “If you’d left when the credits started, you’d be home by now.”
I _think_ that was **Spaceballs**. Or was that another John Hughes film?
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/48 "2008-09-29T05:25:57Z")
I came in to add Hamlet’s “The rest is silence” as he dies, but I see you are asking for the very last line.
So I’ll add Gone With the Wind: “After all, tomorrow is another day.”
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/49 "2008-09-29T05:26:08Z")
> [@laughingboy](#):
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> Great line from a great movie, but not the last line:
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> “Say, friend, you got any more of that good sarsaparilla?”
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> For my contribution, here are the last few lines from my favorite movie. Bonus points to those who can identify it without googling.
>
> “How do you know they’ll print it? You can take a walk, but how far if they don’t print it?”
> “They’ll print it.”
> “How do you know?”
Three Days of the Condor.
Roddy
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/50 "2008-09-29T05:27:04Z")
> [@laughingboy](#):
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> Great line from a great movie, but not the last line:
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> “Say, friend, you got any more of that good sarsaparilla?”
>
> For my contribution, here are the last few lines from my favorite movie. Bonus points to those who can identify it without googling.
>
> “How do you know they’ll print it? You can take a walk, but how far if they don’t print it?”
> “They’ll print it.”
> “How do you know?”
Three Days of the Condor. Not difficult.
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### Author:  [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/51 "2008-09-29T05:28:14Z")
> [@Roderick\_Femm](#):
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> Three Days of the Condor.
> Roddy
Curse you Roddy!!! You are the patron demon of simulposts!!!
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/52 "2008-09-29T05:29:31Z")
My favorite last line in literature is from Cyrano de Bergerac, because it has so much emotional resonance with the content and meaning of the play. It’s too much to try to put into a post; read the play, or see it, and you will know why. It still makes me tear up just thinking about it.
Cyrano: _My white plume!_ (looks up at Roxane, and dies.)
Roddy
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### Author:  [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/53 "2008-09-29T05:32:25Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#):
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> Curse you Roddy!!! You are the patron demon of simulposts!!!
Sheer dumb luck on my part, I assure you. And the first time for me. Anyway, I couldn’t believe it went over two hours without anyone answering it.
Roddy
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### Author:  [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/54 "2008-09-29T05:37:12Z")
Another good King ending:
“…Darling.”
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### Author:  [@MacSpon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MacSpon)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/55 "2008-09-29T05:53:52Z")
A couple from Harlan Ellison:
> [@](#):
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> I have no mouth. And I must scream.
And, a little more obscure, but it never fails to chill me:
> [@](#):
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> And the silence was deeper that night across the face of the world, from pole to pole, deeper than it had ever been before in the life of the creatures that called themselves human.
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> But not as deep as it would soon become.
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/56 "2008-09-29T06:16:21Z")
> [@MacSpon](#):
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> A couple from Harlan Ellison:
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> I have no mouth. And I must scream.
Awesome story. One of my favs. Nightmarish in every way.
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### Author:  [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/57 "2008-09-29T12:23:55Z")
“Tomorrow is another day”
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### Author:  [@Svejk\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Svejk_1)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/58 "2008-09-29T12:51:22Z")
The horror … The horror!
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### Author:  [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/59 "2008-09-29T13:01:19Z")
“Forget it, Jake - it’s Chinatown.”
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### Author:  [@sciurophobic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sciurophobic)
#### Post date: [September 29, 2008, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/perfect-last-lines/465531/60 "2008-09-29T13:26:42Z")
For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.
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