Parse contents of folder of txt files

I tried to do this in Automator, but whatever I did didn't work:
I have a folder with about 80 short text files (quotations, if you must know) and I wanted to make a spreadsheet or database where each cell/field was the contents of one of the text files.
Is there some way to accomplish this without individually opening each .txt file, copying the contents, and then pasting into the appropriate spreadsheet cell ?

This may be stupidly trivial.
Assuming you want each quotation in a new row in the spreadsheet you can do this with a oneliner:
cat *.txt > quotes.txt
This will combine the contents of all .txt files in the current directory into a new file called quotes.txt (use cd to get to the appropriate directory first). Once there you can open the quotes.txt file in your spreadsheet application. Violà:
open -a Microsoft\ Excel quotes.txt

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