"The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for."

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Source : Will Cuppy (1944). “The Great Bustard and Other People: Containing: How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes and How to Become Extinct”

Will Cuppy

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“Science fiction doesnâ€™t try to predict the future, but rather offers a significant distortion of the presentâ€¦We sit around and look at what we see around us and we say how can the world be different”
“As for vegetables, I do not consider a plot of ground devoted to them worthy of the honorable name of garden. Vegetables are, of course, a part of gardening, but the least, the last, -for those who do not have to raise them, the most dishonorable part.”
“Part of me is still waiting to grow up, to be an adult, and the other part knows there is no such thing.”
“When I am asked about influences, I always say I bow down to Fred Astaire, because when you look at him dancing you never look at his extremities, do you? You look at his centre. What you never see is the hours of work that went into the routines, you just see the breathtaking spirit and freedom.”
“President Bush should be indicted and should be driven out of office. He should be sent back home in Texas.”
“I see so many people who don't want to try, and I say 'I don't care what I ever do, I never give up at anything anymore.' I don't care what it is, you'll never see me give up.”
“I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.”
“You cannot escape sex. It will track you to the ends of the earth.”

Source : Jan Clausen (1981). “Mother, sister, daughter, lover: stories”

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