The one unsolved one from the OP:
I’ll be damned if I know who wrote it, but the name of the story is A Gnome There Was, a weird piece of 1940ish Fantasy.
My addition:
“And there never was an apple, in Adam’s opinion, that wasn’t worth the trouble you got into for eating it.”
“Jim. . . your name is Jim.”
“Behind him, he was aware of a tiny click as the door, cushioned by the hydraulic check, shut forever. It was not locked; but its other side bore the warning: MEN.”
“Two of our oppossums are missing.”
The next line(s) is A CHEAT:
“There is in certan living souls
A quality of loneliness unspeakable,
So great it must be shared
As company is shared by lesser beings.
Such loneliness is mine; so know by this
That in immensity
There is one lonelier than you.”
A cheat, because it’s not the final line. The actual final line is this:
“. . . even to loneliness there is an end, for those who are lonely enough, long enough.”
Sir
Fenris: Great topic (as always). Proud to hit the 100 mark with this thread.
Oh, yes, and “‘Peekaboo’, said Mink” is from “Zero Hour” by Bradbury. “Some idiot turned on the lights” is Bradbury too, I can’t remember the title. Icky story.
Like a physical blow when I read it - it’s not the last line, but it’s effectively the last spoken one:
“Because you are unworthy.” - “Way of the Pilgrim” by Gordon Dickson.
October Country. I agree, it is icky.
I think Bradbury may be the master of last lines.
Fenris
FINALLY there is another Wolfe fan on the boards. Shadow/Claw and Sword/Citadel are two of the finest works of speculative fiction ever written.
MR
I could be paraphrasing just a bit on these:
…and statis was punctured, and the room was empty.
“Well, sir, we spent the rest of the shift swapping dirty jokes”.
‘OK’, said Peterson, ‘just for the sake of argument, let’s say I believe you. Where do we go from here?’
“Po-tee-weet!”
And would it, dearly, work?
And the beginning of Infinity…
“And strangest of all is it to hold my wife’s hand again, and to think that I have counted her, and that she has counted me, among the dead.”
“Some one brought a sheet from the Jolly Cricketers; and having covered him, they carried him into that house.”
Here’s a closing line: “And then there were none.”
And no, I’m not talking about Agatha Christie here.
Stasis punctured: “The Ugly Little Boy”, was it Asimov? I think…
Swapping dirty jokes: Leinster’s “First Contact”… “Swap ships!” roared the captain. “Swap ships and go home!”
Po-tee-weet is Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse Five. I picture it as the sound a redwinged blackbird makes.
Nobody guessed mine yet.
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*Originally posted by AHunter3 *
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Asimov, The Ugly Little Boy
Asimov, The End of Eternity?
I recognize the “…telling dirty jokes” one, but for the life of me…
Fenris
I’ve stopped guessing, because none of the ones left unidentified are ringing any bells with me.
Here are the ones of mine not yet guessed. I’ll post answers in a couple of hours in case anyone was losing sleep over them 
“And with glazing eyes Stephen Crane smiled up at the stars, stars that were sprinkled evenly across the sky. Stars that had not yet formed into their familiar constellations, nor would not for another hundred million centuries.”
“Then she put the tablets in her mouth and swallowed them down with a mouthful of brandy, sitting behind the wheel of her big car.”
3)“I hate them. I hate them. I hate everybody. I want to kill mankind. I’d kill them by slow torture if I could. If I can’t, blowing up the earth will do. I shall write my report.”
Fenris, the Fredric Brown quote (“He thought, only a madman would give a loaded revolver to an idiot.”) was from his story titled, appropriately enough, The Weapon.
Hey! That reminds me…I do know another from the OP!
Experiment by Brown. He’s got some great stories. Ever read Pattern? Makes you think, and also has a great closing line.
Stil, I wunt have no other track.
(7 points if you can figure out what book this was the last line of. And yes, it is technically within the genre of science fiction.)
answers for my submissions recapped above:
Adam and No Eve by Alfred Bester
On the Beach by Nevil Shute
Judgment Day by L. Sprague de Camp
There has been joy… Bester’s The Demolished Man
The primroses… Richard Adams’s Watership Down
Nothing left to do… Williamson’s With Folded Hands
War of the Worlds?
and maybe The Invisible Man?
I guess it’s time to wrap my two up.
“…and he turned his back on the dwindling Sun.” – Arthur C. Clarke, Childhood’s End.
“And then there were none.” – Eric Frank Russell, The Great Explosion.
*Originally posted by Fenris *
Answers, although most have been gotten.
“It’s a cookbook!”
To Serve Man, Damon Knight
“Well, I’m back,” he said.
Return of the King, J.R.R. Tolkien
" ‘Well,’ Dee said ‘If the boy wants to be an accountant that badly, I’m sure not going to stand in his way’ "
The Accountant, Robert Sheckley
“One by one, without any fuss, the stars were going out.”
The Nine Billion Names of God, Arthur C. Clarke
“Next day it snowed, and killed off half the crops - but it was a good day.”
It’s A Good Life, Jerome Bixby
“The other two pulled away from her breasts and added their voices to the call, translucent wings unfolding and stirring the air, and for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.”
A Game of Throne, George R.R. Martin
“Cool and discreet, honey, in the dancing frost while the thermometer registers 10 (story title omitted).”
Fondly Faranheit, Alfred Bester
" ‘Peek-a-boo,’ said Mink."
Zero Hour, Ray Bradbury
“But they went the long way, and saw the elephant”
Witches Abroad, Terry Pratchett
“I threw it in his face”
Have Spacesuit, Will Travel: Robert Heinlein
“You have created a new world among the three of you. I congratulate you. Happy goldfish bowl to you, to me, to everyone and may each of you fry in hell forever. Arrest rescinded.”
The Dead Past, Isaac Asimov
“And whether the above true account and history of The Alien be received as such, or as fiction, there can be no doubt that on a not far off September, a thing from some infinite sphere above landed on this earth–and departed.”
He Who Shrank, Henry Hasse
“There was no paradox at all. The cube remained. But the entire rest of the Universe, professors and all, vanished.”
The Experiment, Fredrik Brown
“Then he screamed, too. But the sound was not one that could ever have emerged from a human throat. Still, that was natural enough–under the circumstances”
A Gnome There Was, Henry Kuttner
“P.P.S. Please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard…”
Flowers For Algernon, Daniel Keyes
Fenris
How about this one, from the saddest sci-fi short story I know.
“On the screen, the pitcher looked at the batter with complete indifference in his eyes, wound up - and threw the home run ball.”
“It was not so bad, finding an intact, gelatin-skinned jellyfish in one’s living room. One could step back from it.
It was when the jellyfish called you by name…”