“The aim of literature… is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.”

—  Donald Barthelme

"Florence Green is 81".
Source: Come Back, Dr. Caligari (1964)
Context: His examiner... said severely: "Baskerville, you blank round, discursiveness is not literature." "The aim of literature," Baskerville replied grandly, "is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart."

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American writer, editor, and professor 1931–1989

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