[Ads-l] Quotes from Famous Short Stories

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Here is a line from another story in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"
collection followed by lines from two well-known science fiction
stories.

Year: 1983
Short Story: A Small, Good Thing
Collection: Cathedral
Author: Raymond Carver
Note: I haven't verified this with hardcopy. This quotation is in the
18th edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. In the original story
I think the text is between quotation marks and "he said" is appended.

[Begin excerpt]
You have to eat and keep going. Eating is a small, good thing in a
time like this.
[End excerpt]


Year: 1953
Periodical: Star Science Fiction Stories No. 1
Short Story: The Nine Billion Names of God
Author: Arthur C. Clarke
Note: I haven't verified this with hardcopy. This data is from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

[Begin excerpt]
Overhead, without any fuss, the stars were going out.
[End excerpt]


Date: December 1948
Short Story: Knock
Author: Fredric Brown
Periodical: Thrilling Wonder Stories
Note: I haven't verified this with hardcopy. This data is from Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knock_(short_story)

[Begin excerpt]
The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock on the door...
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 1:27 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu> wrote:
> Quotation dictionaries don't usually include many quotations from short stories, but I'm trying to do so in my upcoming revised edition.  Can anyone point me to crucial or particularly memorable quotes from any of these famous short stories:
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> Anton Chekhov, "The Bet"
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> Joyce Carol Oates, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
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> Raymond Carver, "Cathedral"
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> Or, for that matter, I would welcome any suggestions of crucial or particularly memorable quotes from other short stories as well.
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> Fred Shapiro
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