Arthur Buchwald citations

Arthur Buchwald, né le 20 octobre 1925 et décédé le 17 janvier 2007 à Washington d'une défaillance rénale, était un humoriste américain connu en tant qu'éditorialiste dans le Washington Post.

On retrouve notamment parmi ses écrits les plus populaires Trigger Happy où il parle de la violence transmise par les jeux vidéo pour les jeunes.

Il a annoncé sa propre mort lors d'une vidéo préenregistrée sur le site internet du New York Times. Wikipedia  

✵ 20. octobre 1925 – 17. janvier 2007
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Arthur Buchwald: Citations en anglais

“Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.”

As quoted in "Art Buchwald Celebrates His Life" a profile on CNN Newsroom (2 November 2006) http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/02/cnr.06.html.

“I just don't want to die the same day Castro dies.”

Comment to friends, as quoted in "Newspaper Columnist Art Buchwald Dies at 81" by Patricia Sullivan in The Washington Post (18 January 2007) http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/18/AR2007011800616_pf.html.

“Don't commit suicide, because you might change your mind two weeks later.”

A humorous personal mantra he used to combat his states of depression, published in Too Soon to Say Goodbye (2006)
Leaving Home (1995).

“I like champagne—because it always tastes like my foot's asleep.”

Some Heady Phrases on Wine http://books.google.com/books?id=uFDq4ORNvPkC&q=%22I+like+champagne+because+it+always+tastes+like+my+foot's+asleep%22&pg=PA143#v=onepage, New York Herald Tribune (1954) http://goodgrape.com/index.php/articles/comments/wine_sediments6

“The powder is mixed with water and tastes exactly like powder mixed with water.”

On liquid diets, in New York Herald Tribune (29 December 1960).

“You can't make up anything anymore. The world itself is a satire. All you're doing is recording it.”

Interview in The New York Times Book Review (1985), as quoted in Pundits, Poets, and Wits: An Omnibus of American Newspaper Columns‎ (1990) by Karl Ernest Meyer, p. 308.