Famous Last Words
by Jonathon Green
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"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough," said Karl Marx, drawing a last cantankerous breath. Nonetheless, whether eloquently rehearsed, enigmatic or profound, this sometimes funny, sometimes moving record of parting shots shows the famous and infamous from every age greeting their end in defiantly inimitable style. Over 2000 closing speeches from kings and queens, doctors and lawyers, poets, philosophers and pop stars, priests, saints and villains and murderers, show more martyrs and movie stars are collected in this richly quotable volume. With an eye fixed firmly on posterity, Famous Last Words provides not only a riveting read, but an eminently practical if ghoulish guide to the art of dying well."Compulsive ... entertaining, so enjoyable." --Sunday Express show lessTags
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Another author named John Green (of "Looking for Alaska" and others) introduced me to the unusual and slightly morbid subject of Famous Last Words. It seems that even on their death beds, everyone from Thomas Edison to Isabella Duncan had something interesting to say.
This book is a great collection of these final utterances and is a lot of fun to flip through and see what kinds of interesting quotes are there.
Some of my favorites:
"I've had eighteen straight whiskeys, I believe that's the record" - Dylan Thomas
"Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of those trees" - Stonewall Jackson
"Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!" - Che Guevara
This book is a great collection of these final utterances and is a lot of fun to flip through and see what kinds of interesting quotes are there.
Some of my favorites:
"I've had eighteen straight whiskeys, I believe that's the record" - Dylan Thomas
"Let us cross over the river and rest in the shade of those trees" - Stonewall Jackson
"Shoot, coward! You are only going to kill a man!" - Che Guevara
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Reference, History
- DDC/MDS
- 080 — Computer science, information & general works Anthologies and Quotations General collections
- LCC
- PN6328 .L3 — Language and Literature Literature (General) Literature (General) Collections of general literature Sayings, bon mots, etc.
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