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Donald Barthelme was an American short story writer and novelist known for his playful, postmodernist style of short fiction. Barthelme also worked as a newspaper reporter for the Houston Post, was managing editor of Location magazine, director of the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston , co-founder of Fiction , and a professor at various universities. He also was one of the original founders of the University of Houston Creative Writing Program. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. April 1931 – 23. July 1989   •   Other names دونالد بارتلمی, Дональд Бартелмі
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Donald Barthelme Quotes

“How old are you Hogo.” “Thirty-five Jane. A not unpleasant age to be.” “You don’t mind then. That you are not young.” “It has its buggy aspects as what does not?” “You don’t mind then that you are sagging in the direction of death.”

Donald Barthelme book Snow White

“No, Jane.”
Source: Snow White (1967), p. 128.

Death , Age

“Will you be wanting to contest the divorce?”

Donald Barthelme book Sixty Stories

I asked Mrs. Davis.
"I should think not," she said calmly, "although I suppose on of us should, for the fun of the thing. An uncontested divorce always seems to me contrary to the spirit of divorce."
"At The End Of The Mechanical Age".
Sixty Stories (1981)