{"id":125214,"date":"2015-11-28T16:31:35","date_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:31:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/28\/the-last-words-of-25-famous-dead-writers\/"},"modified":"2015-11-28T16:31:35","modified_gmt":"2015-11-28T16:31:35","slug":"the-last-words-of-25-famous-dead-writers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/11\/28\/the-last-words-of-25-famous-dead-writers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Last Words Of 25 Famous Dead Writers"},"content":{"rendered":"

ellejello<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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powerhousearena<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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When\u00a0you\u2019ve\u00a0dedicated your life to words, it\u2019s important to go out eloquently.<\/p>\n

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  1. Ernest Hemingway: \u201cGoodnight my kitten.\u201d\u00a0Spoken to his wife before he killed himself.\n<\/li>\n
  2. \nJane Austen: \u201cI want nothing but death.\u201d\u00a0In response to her sister, Cassandra, who was asking her if she wanted anything.\n<\/li>\n
  3. J.M Barrie: \u201cI can\u2019t sleep.\u201d<\/li>\n
  4. L. Frank Baum: \u201cNow I can cross the shifting sands.\u201d<\/li>\n
  5. Edgar Allan Poe: \u201cLord help my poor soul.\u201d<\/li>\n
  6. Thomas Hobbes: \u201cI am about to take my last voyage, a great leap into the dark,\u201d<\/li>\n
  7. Alfred Jarry: \u201cI am dying\u2026please, bring me a toothpick.\u201d<\/li>\n
  8. Hunter S. Thompson: \u201cRelax \u2014 this won\u2019t hurt.\u201d<\/li>\n
  9. Henrik Ibsen: \u201cOn the contrary!\u201d<\/li>\n
  10. Anton Chekhov: \u201cI haven\u2019t had champagne for a long time.\u201d<\/li>\n
  11. Mark Twain: \u201cGood bye. If we meet\u2014\u201d Spoken to his daughter Clara.<\/li>\n
  12. \nLouisa May Alcott: \u201cIs it not meningitis?\u201d\u00a0Alcott did not have meningitis, though she believed it to be so. She died from mercury poison.\n<\/li>\n
  13. Jean Cocteau: \u201cSince the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without hurrying.\u201d<\/li>\n
  14. Washington Irving: \u201cI have to set my pillows one more night, when will this end already?\u201d<\/li>\n
  15. Leo Tolstoy: \u201cBut the peasants\u2026how do the peasants die?\u201d<\/li>\n
  16. Hans Christian Andersen: \u201cDon\u2019t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more.\u201d<\/li>\n
  17. \nCharles Dickens: \u201cOn the ground!\u201d\u00a0He suffered a stroke outside his home and was asking to be laid on the ground.\n<\/li>\n
  18. \nH.G. Wells: \u201cGo away! I\u2019m all right.\u201d\u00a0He\u00a0didn\u2019t\u00a0know he was dying.<\/span>\n<\/li>\n
  19. \nJohann Wolfgang von Goethe: \u201cMore light.\u201d\n<\/li>\n
  20. \nW.C. Fields: \u201cGoddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta!\u201d\u00a0\u201cCarlotta\u201d was Carlotta Monti, actress and his mistress.\n<\/li>\n
  21. \nVoltaire: \u201cNow, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.\u201d\u00a0When asked by a priest to renounce Satan.\n<\/li>\n
  22. Dylan Thomas: \u201cI\u2019ve had 18 straight whiskies\u2026I think that\u2019s the record.\u201d<\/li>\n
  23. George Bernard Shaw: \u201cDying is easy, comedy is hard.\u201d<\/li>\n
  24. Henry David Thoreau: \u201cMoose\u2026Indian.\u201d<\/li>\n
  25. James Joyce: \u201cDoes nobody understand?\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    26. Oscar Wilde: \u201cEither the wallpaper goes, or I do.\u201d
    27. Bob Hope: \u201cSurprise me.\u201d He was responding to his wife asking where he wanted to be buried. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

    reblogging because of Voltaire though<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    ellejello: matt-the-blind-cinnamon-roll: powerhousearena: When\u00a0you\u2019ve\u00a0dedicated your life to words, it\u2019s important to go out eloquently. Ernest Hemingway: \u201cGoodnight my kitten.\u201d\u00a0Spoken to his wife before he killed himself. Jane Austen: \u201cI want nothing but death.\u201d\u00a0In response to her sister, Cassandra, who was asking her if she wanted anything. J.M Barrie: \u201cI can\u2019t sleep.\u201d L. Frank Baum: \u201cNow … <\/p>\n

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