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    23 Famous Authors' Last Words

    Authors spend their lives expressing life's intricacies. Their last words capture this elegance.

    1. Aldous Huxley

    2. Voltaire

    3. Hunter S. Thompson

    4. J.M. Barrie

    5. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

    6. Jane Austen

    7. Edgar Allan Poe

    8. Anton Chekhov

    9. Leo Tolstoy

    10. Henry David Thoreau

    11. James Joyce

    12. W.C. Fields

    13. Emily Dickinson

    14. Washington Irving

    15. Lord Byron

    16. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

    17. Franz Kafka

    18. Elizabeth Barret Browning

    19. Eugene O'Neill

    20. Charlotte Bronte

    21. Truman Capote

    22. Lewis Carroll

    23. O. Henry