"A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment."

-- Richard Cobden

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“People are amazed that I do comedy. I always did comedy.”
“He had her in his heart, but not always in his mind.”
“I will now direct the attention of scientists to a previously unnoticed cause which brings about the metamorphosis and decomposition phenomena which are usually called decay, putrefaction, rotting, fermentation and moldering. This cause is the ability possessed by a body engaged in decomposition or combination, i.e. in chemical action, to give rise in a body in contact with it the same ability to undergo the same change which it experiences itself.”
“My dad would call me his Cuban princess because I had really dark olive skin because I was always in the sun; but I don't really go in the sun anymore, so that is why I am so white.”
“Capitalism arose and took off its pajamas. Another day, another dollar. Each man is valued at what he will bring in the marketplace. Meaning has been drained from work and assigned instead to remuneration.”

Source : Donald Barthelme (1982). “Sixty stories”, Plume
“The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.”
“To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone.”
“Adolescence is a twentieth-century invention most parents approach with dread and look back on with the relief of survivors.”

Source : Faye Moskowitz (1985). “A Leak in the Heart: Tales from a Woman's Life”, David R Godine Pub

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