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The Last Words Of 25 Famous Dead Writers
When you’ve dedicated your life to words, it’s important to go out eloquently.
Ernest Hemingway: “Goodnight my kitten.” Spoken to his wife before he killed himself.
Jane Austen: “I want nothing but death.” In response to her sister, Cassandra, who was asking her if she wanted anything.
J.M Barrie: “I can’t sleep.”
L. Frank Baum: “Now I can cross the shifting sands.”
Edgar Allan Poe: “Lord help my poor soul.”
Thomas Hobbes: “I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap into the dark,”
Alfred Jarry: “I am dying…please, bring me a toothpick.”
Hunter S. Thompson: “Relax — this won’t hurt.”
Henrik Ibsen: “On the contrary!”
Anton Chekhov: “I haven’t had champagne for a long time.”
Mark Twain: “Good bye. If we meet—” Spoken to his daughter Clara.
Louisa May Alcott: “Is it not meningitis?” Alcott did not have meningitis, though she believed it to be so. She died from mercury poison.
Jean Cocteau: “Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking towards me, without hurrying.”
Washington Irving: “I have to set my pillows one more night, when will this end already?”
Leo Tolstoy: “But the peasants…how do the peasants die?”
Hans Christian Andersen: “Don’t ask me how I am! I understand nothing more.”
Charles Dickens: “On the ground!” He suffered a stroke outside his home and was asking to be laid on the ground.
H.G. Wells: “Go away! I’m all right.” He didn’t know he was dying.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: “More light.”
W.C. Fields: “Goddamn the whole fucking world and everyone in it except you, Carlotta!” “Carlotta” was Carlotta Monti, actress and his mistress.
Voltaire: “Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies.” When asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
Dylan Thomas: “I’ve had 18 straight whiskies…I think that’s the record.”
George Bernard Shaw: “Dying is easy, comedy is hard.”
Henry David Thoreau: “Moose…Indian.”
James Joyce: “Does nobody understand?”
Songs so good i start violetly shaking everytime i hear it 🔥🔥
And remember the time he thought he could emotionally manipulate his republican viewers into voting for his party
Yeah we all know how that turned out
JelloApocalypse's STiB One Piece video is out and the One Piece fans in my friends' discord server are dissecting it with precision and intensity
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"We have always been meant to burn together." —Rhaenyra Targaryen, House of the Dragon (1.07)
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Unless your Tumblr handle is @chloelapomme, chances are that you ignore the chokehold House of the Dragon had on me last year, and how quick I was to turn a blind eye to all the incestuous relationships at the heart of the show 😭
I had originally drawn this for the NaruHina Month 2020 day 18 prompt, "Renewal of vows", but was dissatisfied with the coloring and refrained from posting it back then. Gave it another shot this year and still wasn't happy with it, so I ultimately went with the simple outline version, except for the colored headwear part—it took me so long to do, I just had to include it :)
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