WORDS
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Originally Posted by I Am Great.
Famous last words are always my favourite.
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."
-Pancho Villa, Mexican.
"I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room."
-Eugene O'Neill
"Let's cool it, brothers ."
-Malcolm X
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"Pardon me, sir. I did not do it on purpose."
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Queen Marie Antoinette after she accidentally stepped on the foot of her executioner as she went to the guillotine.
"I can’t sleep."
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J. M. Barrie, author of Peter Pan.
"I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis."
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Humphrey Bogart
"I am about to — or I am going to — die: either expression is correct."
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Dominique Bouhours, famous French grammarian.
"I live!"
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Caligula, as he was being murdered by his own soldiers.
"Dammit…Don’t you dare ask God to help me."
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Joan Crawford to her housekeeper who began to pray aloud.
"I am perplexed. Satan Get Out."
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Aleister Crowley – famous occultist.
"Now why did I do that?"
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General William Erskine, after he jumped from a window in Lisbon, Portugal in 1813.
"Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French Fries’!"
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James French: a convicted murderer, was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution.
"It’s stopped."
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Joseph Henry Green, upon checking his own pulse.
"LSD, 100 micrograms I.M."
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Aldous Huxley to his wife. She obliged and he was injected twice before his death.
"You have won, O Galilean."
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Emperor Julian, having attempted to reverse the official endorsement of Christianity by the Roman Empire.
"No, you certainly can’t."
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John F. Kennedy in reply to Nellie Connally, wife of Governor John Connelly, commenting “You certainly can’t say that the people of Dallas haven’t given you a
nice welcome, Mr. President."
"I feel ill. Call the doctors."
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Mao Zedong
"Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here."
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Nostradamus
"Hurry up, you Hoosier bastard, I could kill ten men while you’re fooling around!"
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Carl Panzram: serial killer, shortly before he was executed by hanging.
"Put out the bloody cigarette!!"
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Saki, to a fellow officer while in a trench during World War I, for fear the smoke would give away their positions. He was then shot by a German sniper who had
heard the remark.
"Please don’t let me fall."
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Mary Surratt, before being hanged for her part in the conspiracy to assassinate President Lincoln. She was the first woman executed by the United States federal
government.
"Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
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Voltaire when asked by a priest to renounce Satan.
"What is life? It is the flash of a firefly in the night. It is the breath of a buffalo in the wintertime. It is the little shadow which runs across the grass and loses
itself in the sunset."
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Crowfoot (1890) (Blackfoot warrior and orator)
"Shoot, coward, you are only going to kill a man."
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Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Shortly before being shot.
“WE HAD A DEATH
PACT
I HAVE TO KEEP
MY HALF OF THE
BARGAIN.
PLEASE BURY ME
PTO
NEXT TO MY BABY.
BURY ME IN MY
LEATHER JACKET,
JEANS AND MOTOR
CYCLE BOOTS
GOODBYE
Anger"
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Sid Vicious (suicide note)
"How is the Empire?"
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George V, last words, 21 January 1936
"I realize that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone."
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Edith Cavell, before her execution by the Germans, 12 October 1915.
"...the fog is rising."
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Emily Dickinson
"Talk not of genius baffled, Genius is master of man. Genius does what it must, and talent does what it can."
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E. R. Bulwer-Lytton,(1860)