[Ads-l] Quotes from Famous Short Stories

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Jeff Prucher posted a quotation from H. P. Lovecraft. Following this
avenue here are two more quotations from Lovecraft.

Year: November 1921
Journal: The Wolverine
Short Story: The Nameless City
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Note: Excerpt is from version at hplovecraft.com. Metadata is from
Wikipedia entry on "The Nameless City". This information must be
independently verified.
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/nc.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nameless_City

[Begin excerpt]
It was of this place that Abdul Alhazred the mad poet dreamed on the
night before he sang his unexplainable couplet:
"That is not dead which can eternal lie,
And with strange aeons even death may die."
[End excerpt]


Year: September 1925.
Journal:  Weird Tales #24
Short Story: The Temple
Author: H. P. Lovecraft
Note: Excerpt is from version at hplovecraft.com. Metadata is from
Wikipedia entry on "The Temple". This information must be
independently verified.
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/fiction/te.aspx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temple_(Lovecraft_short_story)

[Begin excerpt]
But he was unmoved, and cried: "If I am mad, it is mercy! May the gods
pity the man who in his callousness can remain sane to the hideous
end!"
[End excerpt]

Garson

On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 6:37 PM, Jeff Prucher
<000000b93183dc86-dmarc-request at listserv.uga.edu> wrote:
>  H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"Weird Tales, Feb. 1928(not verified in print); it's really only the parts in quotes that are notable.
> “Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn.”     Legrasse had one point in advance of Professor Webb, for several among his mongrel prisoners had repeated to him what older celebrants had told them the words meant. This text, as given, ran something like this:     “In his house at R’lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.”
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>     On Wednesday, January 17, 2018, 10:27:14 AM PST, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>  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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