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 | "A King should die standing." | |
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Louis XVIII
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| "Adieu, mes amis. Je vais la gloire. (Farewell, my friends! I go to
glory!)" | |
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Isadora Duncan
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| "Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "All fled?all done, so lift me on the pyre; The feast is over, and
the lamps expire. [Suicide note.]" | |
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Robert E. Howard
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| "All is lost. Monks, monks, monks!" | |
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Henry VIII of England
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| "All my possessions for a moment of time." | |
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Elizabeth I
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| "And now, in keeping with Channel 40"s policy of always bringing you
the latest in blood and guts, in living color, you"re about to see another
first ? an attempted suicide. [Shot herself during broadcast.]" | |
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Chris Hubbock
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| "At times I think and at times I am." | |
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Paul Valery
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| "Ay Jesus." | |
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Charles V
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| "Capital punishment: them without the capital get the punishment.
Executed in electric chair." | |
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John Spenkelink
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| "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the
debt?" | |
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Socrates
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| "Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The
show looks good, the show looks good!" | |
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Florenz Ziegfeld
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| "Do you hear the rain? Do you hear the rain? [Minutes before her
plane crashed.]" | |
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Jessica Dubroff
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| "Don"t worry chief, it will be alright." | |
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Rudolph Valentino
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| "Drink to me." | |
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Pablo Picasso
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| "Et tu, Brute?" | |
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William Shakespeare
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| "Frances and Courtney, I"ll be at your altar. Please keep going,
Courtney, for Frances, for her life will be so much happier without me. I
LOVE YOU. I LOVE YOU. [Suicide note. ]" | |
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Kurt Cobain
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| "Friends applaud, the Comedy is over." | |
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Ludwig Van Beethoven
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| "Get my swan costume ready." | |
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Anna Pavlova
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| "Go away. I"m all right." | |
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Herbert George Wells
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| "Go on, get out ? last words are for fools who haven"t said enough.
To his housekeeper, who urged him to tell her his last words so she could
write them down for posterity." | |
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Karl Marx
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| "God bless ... God damn." | |
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James Thurber
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| "Goodnight, my darlings, I"ll see you tomorrow." | |
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Noel Coward
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| "Here am I, dying of a hundred good symptoms." | |
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Alexander Pope
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| "How about this for a headline for tomorrow"s paper? French fries.
[Executed in electric chair in Oklahoma. ]" | |
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James French
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| "How were the receipts today at Madison Square Garden?" | |
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PhineasTaylor Barnum
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| "Hurrah for anarchy! This is the happiest moment of my life. [Last
words on the gallows. ]" | |
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George Engel
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| "I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark." | |
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Thomas Hobbes
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| "I am curious to see what happens in the next world to one who dies
unshriven. [Giving his reasons for refusing to see a priest as he lay
dying.]" | |
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Pietro Perugino
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| "I am dying. I haven"t drunk champagne for a long time." | |
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Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
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| "I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe
society nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking
place tonight. [Executed by injection. ]" | |
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Lionel Herrera
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| "I am not what I was when dear Cinara was my queen." | |
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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
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| "I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting." | |
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John Brown
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| "I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may
obtain liberty and peace." | |
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Thomas a Becket
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| "I am ready." | |
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Woodrow Wilson
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| "I am the master in my fate; I am the captain of my soul." | |
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W.E. Henley
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| "I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul." | |
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Wiliam Ernest Henly
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| "I can"t sleep." | |
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Sir James Matthew Barrie
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| "I did not get my Spaghetti-O"s, I got spaghetti. I want the press to
know this. [Executed.]" | |
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Thomas J. Grasso
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| "I die hard but am not afraid to go." | |
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George Washington
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| "I don"t hold any grudges. This is my doing. Sorry it happened.
[Executed in electric chair.]" | |
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Steven Judy
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| "I feel here that this time they have succeeded." | |
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Leon Trotsky
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| "I have a terrific headache. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage." | |
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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| "I have tried so hard to do the right." | |
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Stephan Grover Cleveland
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| "I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room ? and God damn it ? died
in a hotel room." | |
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| "I love you, Sarah. For all eternity, I love you. [Spoken to his
wife.]" | |
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James Knox Polk
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| "I love you. Spoken to the executioner. Executed by injection." | |
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Sean Flannagan
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| "I owe much; I have nothing; the rest I leave to the poor." | |
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François Rabelais
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| "I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis." | |
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Humphrey "Bogey" Bogart
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| "I still live." | |
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Daniel Webster
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| "I"d hate to die twice. It"s so boring." | |
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Richard Phillips Feynman
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| "I"d like to thank my family for loving me and taking care of me. And
the rest of the world can kiss my ass. [Executed by injection.]" | |
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Johnny Frank Garrett
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| "I"d rather be fishing. [Executed in electric chair.]" | |
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Jimmy Glass
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| "I"m bored with it all. Before slipping into a coma. He died 9 days
later." | |
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Sir Winston Churchill
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| "I"ve had a hell of a lot of fun and I"ve enjoyed every minute of
it." | |
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Errol Flynn
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| "I"ve had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that"s the
record...." | |
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Dylan Thomas
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| "I"ve never felt better." | |
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Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
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| "Is everybody happy? I want everybody to be happy. I know I"m
happy." | |
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Ethel Barrymore
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| "It is the duty of every good officer to obey any orders given him by
his commander-in-chief." | |
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Nathan Hale
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| "It is very beautiful over there." | |
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Thomas Alva Edison
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| "It"s a magical world, Hobbes, Ol" Buddy ... let"s go exploring!
12/31/95" | |
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William B.?Bill? Watterson II
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| "It"s all been very interesting." | |
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Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
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| "Last Words in a Suicide note: I feel certain that I"m going mad
again. I feel we can"t go thru another of those terrible times. And I
shan"t recover this time. I begin to hear voices." | |
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Virginia Woolf
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| "LAST, n. A shoemaker"s implement, named by a frowning Providence as
opportunity to the maker of puns." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Let"s cool it brothers ... Spoken to his assassins, three men who
stabbed him 16 times." | |
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Malcolm X
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| "Let"s do it! [Executed by firing squad.]" | |
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Gary Gilmore
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| "Lock and load. Let"s do it. [Executed. ]" | |
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G. W. Green
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| "Many lives fail from inability to deliver the last blow; a workman
lifts his iron maul repeatedly upon the plow until the deed is done. Which
blow split the rock? They all did, but without the last one the first one
and all between would have come to nothing." | |
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Unknown
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| "May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be
mine." | |
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Frank Sinatra
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| "No, I shall not give in. I shall go on. I shall work to the
end." | |
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Edward VII of England
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| "Nothing matters. Nothing matters." | |
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Louis Burt Mayer
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| "Now comes the mystery." | |
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Henry Ward Beecher
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| "Now I have finished with all earthly business, and high time too.
Yes, yes, my dear child, now comes death. Lehár, Franz (1870 -
1948)" | |
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Franz Lehár
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| "Now I shall go to sleep. Goodnight." | |
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Lord George Gordon Byron
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| "Oh, do not cry ? be good children and we will all meet in
heaven." | |
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Andrew Jackson
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| "Please know that I am quite aware of the hazards. Women must try to
do things as men have tried. When they fail, their failure must be but a
challenge to others. [Last letter to her husband before her last
flight.]" | |
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Amelia Earhart
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| "Put out the light." | |
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Theodore Roosevelt
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| "Remember, the death penalty is murder. [Executed.]" | |
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Robert Drew
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| "See in what peace a Christian can die." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "Sister, you"re trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I"m
done, I"m finished, I"m going to die. [Spoken to his nurse.]" | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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| "So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
[Executed by beheading. ]" | |
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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| "That was a great game of golf, fellers." | |
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Bing Crosby
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| "That was the best ice-cream soda I ever tasted." | |
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Lou Costello
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| "The last straw." | |
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Proverb
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| "The nourishment is palatable." | |
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Millard Fillmore
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| "The paper burns, but the words fly away." | |
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Ben Joseph Akiba
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| "They tried to get me ? I got them first! [Suicide.]" | |
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Vachell Lindsay
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| "This is the last of earth! I am content." | |
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John Quincy Adams
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| "This time it will be a long one." | |
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Georges Clemenceau
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| "Thomas Jefferson still survives ... (Actually, Jefferson had died
earlier that same day, Independence Day, July 4, 1826)" | |
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John Adams
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| "To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to
take my life away and our baby"s before I bring him with shame or killing
him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]" | |
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Lupe Velez
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| "Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers." | |
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Walter de La Mare
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| "Turn up the lights, I don?t want to go home in the dark." | |
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O. Henry
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| "We are getting into semantics again. If we use words, there is a
very grave danger they will be misinterpreted." | |
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H. R. Haldeman
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| "Well I?ve had a happy life." | |
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William Hazlitt
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| "Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel. [Executed in
electric chair in New York.]" | |
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George Appel
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| "Well, the Lord is going to get another one. [Executed in electric
chair. ]" | |
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John Eldon Smith
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| "When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her
family around her bedside: Am I dying or is this my birthday?" | |
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Lady Nancy Astor
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| "Why do you weep. Did you think I was immortal?" | |
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Louis XIV
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| "Why fear death? It is the most beautiful adventure in life." | |
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Charles Frohman
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| "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the
Grim Reaper. Executed in California"s gas chamber." | |
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Robert Alton Harris
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| "You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother. [Executed in electric
chair.]" | |
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Francis "Two Gun" Crowley
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