Famous Last Words

Your everyday reminder to watch what you're saying, because it may be the last thing you'll ever say.

[that-bookworm-guy]

Screenshot because I can't be bothered to crop them

UK peeps, I'm selling books over on my Instagram on a highlight, I need some extra cash by the end of the month and these have been sitting around for a bit

If you're interested DM me. I'm open to offers and happy to do bundles etc :)

Money to be sent via PayPal or bank transfer. But UK only due to postage

[nsamori]

talk about yemen. talk about the 63,000 yemeni children that died of preventable causes. talk about how the UN dubbed it “ the world’s largest humanitarian crisis ”. talk about US’ major role in backing Saudi Arabia’s bombing. talk! talk! talk! this needs to get the deserved and much needed attention.

[flwords]

Now I can cross the Shifting Sands.

Lyman Frank Baum (1856 – 1919, an American author, actor, and independent filmmaker best known as the creator, along with illustrator William Wallace Denslow, of one of the most popular books in American children’s literature, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.)

[flwords]

You are no son of mine.

Tywin Lannister in A Storm of Swords

(via flwords)

[flwords]

But the peasants…how do the peasants die?

Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy [Ле́в Никола́евич Толсто́й, usually rendered Leo Tolstoy, or sometimes Tolstoi] (1828 – 1910, a Russian writer, philosopher and social activist.)

[flwords]

He has kill’d me, mother: Run away, I pray you!

Macduff’s son in Macbeth by William Shakespeare (via flwords)

[flwords]

I’m convicted unfairly, and I die innocent.

Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling (1887 – 1945, a Norwegian fascist politician.)

[flwords]

Funny/strange.* (ger. Komisch)

Otto Rank (1884 – 1939) was an Austrian psychoanalyst, writer, and teacher.

*The word “komisch” may be translated in different ways.

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[flwords]

So hard to die.

Meriwether Lewis (1774 – 1809, an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition)

[flwords]

Mama.

Agnes Robertson Moorehead (1900 – 1974, an American actress whose career of six decades included work in radio, stage, film, and television.)

[flwords]

Strike, man, strike!

Sir Walter Raleigh (1554 – 1618, famed as a writer, poet, spy, and explorer.)

To his executioner, as he waited for the axe to fall.

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[flwords]

Let it be known that homosexuals are not cowards

Willem Arondeus (1894 – 1943, a homosexual Dutch artist and author, who joined the anti-Nazi resistance movement during World War II.)

He led a group in bombing the Amsterdam Public Records Office, destroying thousands of files to prevent the Nazis from identifying Jews. Within a week, Arondeus and the other members of the group were arrested. Twelve, including Arondeus, were executed by firing squad.

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[flwords]

Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694 – 1778, a French writer, deist and philosopher.)

Spoken when asked by a priest to renounce Satan

[flwords]

For God sake, leave me alone!

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694 – 1778, a French writer, deist and philosopher.)

Another variant

[flwords]

I am abandoned by God and man! I will give you half of what I am worth if you will give me six months’ life. Then I shall go to hell; and you will go with me. O Christ! O Jesus Christ!”

Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet, 1694 – 1778, a French writer, deist and philosopher.)

The earliest report of this version was by Charles Buck, an American preacher, who wrote of it in 1822, more than forty years after the death of Voltaire.

[flwords]

Don’t abandon my indians!

Felipe Carrillo Puerto (1874 – 1924, a Mexican journalist, politician and revolutionary who became known for his efforts at reconciliation between the Yucatec Maya and the Mexican government after the Caste War.)

[flwords]

What is the answer? [no response] In that case, what is the question?

Gertrude Stein (1874 – 1946, an American expatriate writer, poet, feminist, and playwright, who lived most of her life in Europe.)

Spoken to Alice B. Toklas.

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