"Obituary" é um conto de ficção científica do escritor americano Isaac Asimov. Foi publicado pela primeira vez na edição de agosto de 1959 da The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction e reimpresso na coleção de Asimov de 1968 Asimov's Mysteries.
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“Three decades ago, my Midwestern friend, Joe Rosenfield, then in his 80s, received an irritating letter from his local newspaper. In blunt words, the paper asked for biographical data it planned to use in Joe’s obituary. Joe didn’t respond. So? A month later, he got a second letter from the paper, this one labeled “URGENT.””
“I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.”
“It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless, no refuse save the printed books... It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.”
“Decency is not news; it is buried in the obituaries — but it is a force stronger than crime.”
“I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.”
“In his prime, the young comic walked onto a stage with the confidence of a man who owned it, and by the time he walked off, he did.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
