“I wanted to quit and to do this forever, sleep in a bed and in a tent, see what was over the next hill and never see a hill again. All of this all at once, every moment, on the trail or off.”

— Bill Bryson , A Walk in the Woods

Source: A Walk in the Woods

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American author 1951

John Barnes book Mother of Storms

Source: Mother of Storms (1994), p. 484

“This is what I want to do forever, each one thought. Rise in the morning, come to the mill, and work all day with him beside me. Never mind that the wish was impossible. Never mind that they might never see each other again, once the boy left for his apprenticeship back in the place of his birth. That only added to the sweetness of the moment, which would soon become a memory, would soon become a dream.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Source: The Tales of Alvin Maker, Seventh Son (1987), Chapter 15 (closing words).

“I walked down the hill, forgot philosophy, and joined the human race again. Nobody was particularly glad to see me.”

Orson Scott Card (1951) American science fiction novelist

Treason (1988)

“You've heard of Beverly Hills Cop - well I want to do a Brixton Hills Cop.”

Richard Blackwood (1972) British comedian

“Suddenly, I viddied what I had to do, and what I had wanted to do, and that was to do myself in; to snuff it, to blast off for ever out of this wicked, cruel world. One moment of pain perhaps and, then, sleep forever, and ever and ever.”

Anthony Burgess book A Clockwork Orange

Source: A Clockwork Orange

“Tell Hill he must come up … Strike the tent.”

Robert E. Lee (1807–1870) Confederate general in the Civil War

Reported as his last words. There are suggestions that Lee's biographer, Douglas Southall Freeman embellished Lee's final moments; as Lee suffered a stroke on September 28, 1870. Dying two weeks later, on October 12, 1870, shortly after 9 a.m. from the effects of pneumonia. Lee's stroke had resulted in aphasia, rendering him unable to speak. When interviewed the four attending physicians and family stated "he had not spoken since 28 September..."
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