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100 Best Last Lines from Novels

24. Go, my book, and help destroy the world as it is. –Russell Banks, Continental Drift (1985)

49. 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. –George Orwell, Animal Farm (1945)

80. Everything had gone right with me since he had died, but how I wished there existed someone to whom I could say that I was sorry. –Graham Greene, The Quiet American (1956)

American Book Review's entire list here.