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Anticlimax is, of course, the warp and way of things. Real life seldom structures a decent denouement. -- Dan Simmons
Life doesn't have plots and subplots and denouements. It's just a big collection of loose ends and dangling threads that never get explained. -- Grant Morrison
It might be useful to be able to predict war. But tension does not necessarily lead to war, but often to peace and to denouement. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
There's a conventional reaction when you see a star: You anticipate he'll be a part of a particular denouement down the road, so you don't worry for that character. -- Kathryn Bigelow
I think the success of 'Downton' is partly because there are effectively 18 leading characters, all given equal importance, so it's enormously involving on many levels. But also, it's a new story. It's not like Dickens or Austen, where everyone knows the denouement. -- Michelle Dockery
Do not permit yourself to fall in love with the end-game play to the exclusion of entire games. It is well to have the whole story of how it happened; the complete play, not the denouement only. Do not embrace the rag-time and vaudeville of chess. -- Emanuel Lasker
So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves. -- Ogden Nash
More than working toward the book's climax, I work toward the denouement. As a reader and a writer, that's where I find the real satisfaction. -- Greg van Eekhout

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