Lasts Quotes - Page 40
Jean Cocteau (1990). “Opium: The Illustrated Diary of His Cure”, Peter Owen Publishers
Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.224, Open Road Media
Speech shown in "American Experience" series on PBS, 2000.
The Optimist's Daughter ch. 1 (1969)
I drank at every vine, the last was like the first. I came upon no wine so wonderful as thirst.
Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.68, Library of America
Daniel Wallace (1999). “Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions”, Penguin Group USA
Human consciousness is just about the last surviving mystery.
"Consciousness Explained". Book by Daniel Dennett, 1991.
Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade.
Confucius, Edward Slingerland (2003). “Analects: With Selections from Traditional Commentaries”, p.96, Hackett Publishing
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
Christopher Hitchens (2002). “Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere”, p.268, Verso