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What's your hurry?" Because now is the only time there ever is to do a thing in," said Miss Ophelia.

Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.283, Harriet Beecher Stowe

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

Reported in Donald Sutherland, Gertrude Stein: A Biography of Her Work (1951). Stein's companion Alice B. Toklas, who was with her at her death, reported Stein's words as, "What is the answer? ... In that case... what is the question?" (Alice B. Toklas, What Is Remembered [1963]), and did not identify these specifically as the last words.

Little said is soonest mended.

Shepherd's Hunting, 1615.

Daddy always said you only explained things to the people that actually mattered.

Gabrielle Zevin (2011). “All These Things I've Done”, p.115, Macmillan

I stand by everything I've ever said, apologies included.

Interview with Carrie Battan, pitchfork.com. October 7, 2013.

Fish," the old man said. "Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?

Ernest Hemingway (2016). “The Old Man and the Sea”, p.27, Hamilton Books

Then I said it. He said it too. I love you. And everything that went before meant nothing.

Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

I'll tell you what, with Hillary Clinton, I said be at my wedding and she came to my wedding. You know why? She didn't have a choice...

Donald Trump during GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.cbsnews.com. August 7, 2015.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

Dirk Bogarde (2014). “A Postillion Struck by Lightning”, p.171, A&C Black