| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 56495 |
| QUOTATION: | I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it’s good fun. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Robert Louis Stevenson (1850–1894), Scottish novelist, essayist, poet. Stevenson’s Letters to Charles Baxter (1956).
Closing lines of letter written a few months before Stevenson’s death in Samoa. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | Stevenson Collection. |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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