Clifford D. Simak Quote
And why should I, asked Joe, do something for someone who isn’t even born yet? Why should I look beyond the years of my own life? When I die, I die, and all the shouting and the glory, all the banners and the bugles will be nothing to me. I will not know whether I lived a great life or a very poor one. The race, said Grant. Joe laughed, a shout of laughter. Race preservation, race advancement. That’s what you’re getting at. Why should you be concerned with that? Or I? The
Clifford D. Simak
And why should I, asked Joe, do something for someone who isn’t even born yet? Why should I look beyond the years of my own life? When I die, I die, and all the shouting and the glory, all the banners and the bugles will be nothing to me. I will not know whether I lived a great life or a very poor one. The race, said Grant. Joe laughed, a shout of laughter. Race preservation, race advancement. That’s what you’re getting at. Why should you be concerned with that? Or I? The
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