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From: janel@tekchips.UUCP (Jane Laursen)
Newsgroups: net.books
Subject: Re: Quote (Help!)
Message-ID: <480@tekchips.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 3-May-85 12:11:06 EDT
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Posted: Fri May  3 12:11:06 1985
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Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Keywords: poetry
Summary: 

>The quote:
>
>               "So, this is how the world ends...
>                not with a bang, but with a whimper." 
>

I believe this is from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Men".  It starts
something like

                "We are the hollow men.
                 We are the empty men."