1,646 Quotes About Lasts

  • Author Denis Johnson
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    He got right down in the dark between heartbeats, and rested there. And then he saw that another one wasn't going to come. That's it. That's the last. He looked at the dark. I would like to take this opportunity, he said, to pray for another human being.

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  • Author Dhani Jones
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    I like to keep things classic, not lavish or blinged out. I don't even say that word. The last thing I want to be is over the top.

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  • Author Derek Jeter
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    The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

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  • Author Donald Judd
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    The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

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  • Author Erica Jong
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    A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

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  • Author Erica Jong
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    I believe I belong to the last literary generation, the last generation, that is, for whom books are a religion.

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  • Author Erica Jong
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    the only people worth writing about are those about whom the last word cannot be said.

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  • Author Eyvind Johnson
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    From the throes of inspiration and the eddies of thought the poet may at last be able to arrive at, and convey the right admixture of words and meaning.

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