[Ads-l] Quotes from Famous Short Stories

[MULLINS, WILLIAM D (Bill) CIV USARMY RDECOM AMRDEC (US)]

"'I don't keer w'at you do wid me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'so you don't fling me in dat brier-patch. Roas' me, Brer Fox,' sezee, 'but don't fling me in dat brier-patch,' sezee."  
Usually quoted as something like "Please don't throw me in that briar patch!"
Joel Chandler Harris, "How Mr. Rabbit was too Sharp for Mr. Fox" _Atlanta Constitution_ 11/30/1879; _Uncle Remus: His Songs and Sayings_ (1880) 

"I wish I knew how to quit you."  Annie Proulx, "Brokeback Mountain" _The New Yorker_ 10/13/1997
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1997/10/13/brokeback-mountain

"P.P.S. Please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard . . . " Daniel Keyes "Flowers for Algernon" _Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction_  4/1959
https://archive.org/stream/Fantasy_Science_Fiction_v016n04_1959-04_PDF/Fantasy__Science_Fiction_v016n04_1959-04_PDF#page/n3/mode/2up


"Punch, brothers! Punch with care!
Punch in the presence of the Passenjare!"
Mark Twain "Punch, Brothers, Punch" _Atlantic Monthly_  (As "A Literary Nightmare") 2/1876
https://books.google.com/books?id=klpBAAAAYAAJ&lpg=PA169&ots=KcpwWR4IkW&dq=%22punch%20brothers%20punch%22%20atlantic%20monthly&pg=PA167#v=onepage&q=%22punch%20brothers%20punch%22%20atlantic%20monthly&f=false



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