“Thaw! The last word in stolentelling! (424.35)”
(Finnegans Wake ends with the word 'the')
Finnegans Wake (1939)
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Irish novelist and poet 1882–1941Related quotes
Of Man's Progress in Virtue
Moralia, Others
“Harry Thaw shot the wrong architect.”
Disparaging the work of Joseph Urban, his brother Addison's architectural rival. Harry Thaw was a wealthy man of the times who had shot and killed architect Stanford White over his earlier involvement with Thaw's wife Evelyn Nesbit.
Quoted by Alva Johnston, The Legendary Mizners, 1953, Farrar Straus and Young, New York. Johnston allows that the quote has been attributed to many others, but makes a good case that Mizner said it first.
Wisecracks
“A weak human mercy walks in the corridors of hospitals and is like a half-thawed winter.”
"Before Majesty" (1978), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Robert Hass
Hymn of the Pearl (1981)
Lo que dicen las palabras no dura. Duran las palabres. Porque las palabras son siempre las mismas y lo que dicen no es nunca lo mismo.
Voces (1943)
“For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.”
Variant: For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning."
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Source: Four Quartets
“Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering.”
Source: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
“March: The Geese Return”, p. 18.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "January Thaw", "February: Good Oak" & "March: The Geese Return"
“Who is it? Who is it? (Last words)”
Desert USA, October 1998 http://www.desertusa.com/mag98/oct/papr/billykid.html