Last Words Quotes - Page 11

• Imbuing fiction with a life that extends beyond the last word is in some ways the goal: the ending that goes beyond the ending in the reader's mind, so invested are they in the story.

  Jeff VanderMeer

  Goal, Mind, Fiction

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• Let us go over, and sit in the shade of the trees.

  Stonewall Jackson

  Tree, Shade

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• From the Rabbis of the early Talmudic age I learned that there is never a last word on God. There's, you always continue to question. Even God himself could be questioned and you can keep arguing with one another and there will be no end to this conversation about the divine because no human expression of God can be ultimate.

  Karen Armstrong

  Expression, Age, Lasts

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further touch consists in juxtaposing perspectives so that we're led to wonder whether the mockery itself is the last word.

  Philip Kitcher

  Thinking, Perspective, Lasts

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• The essay community should have hundreds of anthologies from hundreds of different perspectives that are constantly introducing us to new writers, new work, and new visions for our genre. The whole spirit of these anthologies is that there should never be a last word in how essays are interpreted or what they can be.

  John D'Agata

  Should Have, Perspective, Community

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Society takes what it wants. The artist himself does not count, because there is no actual existence for the work of art. The work of art is always based on the two poles of the onlooker and the maker, and the spark that comes from the bipolar action gives birth to something - like electricity. But the onlooker has the last word, and it is always posterity that makes the masterpiece. The artist should not concern himself with this, because it has nothing to do with him.

  Marcel Duchamp

  Art, Two, Giving

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• Everyone has got some preconceptions, but you have to readjust them in front of reality. Reality has the last word.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Reality, Lasts, Fronts

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• ...to see the light. (Last words)

  Walter Rosenblum

  Light, Lasts

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• Here and there, in some older houses, old faded daguerreotypes still hang on the walls... They seem to us to be very simple... compared with the artistic and skillful portraits made in later days... Here was a photograph that at one time had been the last word, a very modern portrait... Today it is just a part of cultural history. The small yellowed surface has acquired depth, an admonishing perspective. We hold in our hand a symbol of the structure and ideology of an epoch.

  Isak Dinesen

  Wall, Simple, Hands

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• There is an ancient script that says, 'He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be ignorant.' But I took off the last word and it now reads for me like this: He that wishes to be ignorant, let him be!

  Jim Rohn

  Ignorant, Wish, Lasts

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Aug 20, 2015

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• Money, of course, is never just money. It's always something else, and it's always something more, and it always has the last word.

  Paul Auster

  Lasts, Courses

  Paul Auster (2011). “Collected Prose”, p.251, Faber & Faber

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• Better is the sinner who hath thoughts about God, than the saint who hath only the show of sanctity.

  Saadi

  Saint, Famous Last Words, Sanctity

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• History may never have all the facts, but history always has the last word.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  May, Lasts, Facts

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• Larousse Gastronomique has always been the first and last word on classic European techniques and recipes. I love that it has expanded its reach to cover world cuisines and modern culinary innovations, making it more indispensable than ever.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Innovation, Technique, World

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• My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Father, Done, Left

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• Prayer is something deeper than words. It is present in the soul before it has been formulated in words. And it abides in the soul after the last words of prayer have passed over our lips.

  Ole Hallesby

  Prayer, Soul, Lasts

  Ole Hallesby (1975). “Prayer”, Augsburg Fortress Publishing

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• I suspect that, if you should go to the end of the world, you would find somebody there going farther, as if just starting for home at sundown, and having a last word before he drove off.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Travel, Home, World

  Henry David Thoreau (1864). “The Maine Woods”, p.11

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• I never, ever used my son for publicity. He'll have his say one day if he wants it. He'll have the last word. He has time to defend himself.

  Linda Evangelista

  Son, One Day, Want

  "Protecting Family" by Ella Alexander, www.vogue.co.uk. February 3, 2012.

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• The last word of our Lord to the church was not the Great Commission. The last thing He said to the church was 'Repent.' He said that to five out of seven.

  Vance Havner

  Church, Lasts, Seven

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• I do not sleep; I wish to meet my death awake.

  Maria Theresa

  Sleep, Wish, Awake

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• We judge ourselves by our good intentions, but we're judged by our last word.

  Tom Selleck

  Judging, Lasts, Good Intentions

  Source: www.gq.com

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• Feeling good" is your way of telling yourself that your last thought was truth, that your last word was wisdom, that your last action was love. To measure how highly you have evolved, simply look to see what makes you "feel good.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Feel Good, Feelings, Looks

  FaceBook post by Neale Donald Walsch from Aug 01, 2016

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• If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Faith, Dying, Would Be

  Letter to John Ching Hsiung Wu in 1924. "Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes: His Book Notices and Uncollected Letters and Papers". Book by Harry Clair Shriver, p. 175, 1936.

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• Moreover, if the territorial state is to continue as the last word in the development of society, then war is inevitable.

  Christian Lous Lange

  War, Development, Lasts

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• Always remember the last words of my grandfather, who said: 'A truck!'

  Emo Philips

  Funny, Humor, Grandfather

  "E=MO²". Album by Emo Philips, 1985.

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