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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About Clifford D. Simak
Clifford Donald Simak (; August 3, 1904 – April 25, 1988) was an American science fiction writer. He won three Hugo Awards and one Nebula Award. The Science Fiction Writers of America made him its third SFWA Grand Master, and the Horror Writers Association made him one of three inaugural winners of the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement. He is associated with the pastoral science fiction subgenre.