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“I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.”

Quote by Bill Jay

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Bill Jay was an American writer born on August 12, 1940, and passed away in 2009. His works spanned various fields, including literature, art, and popular culture. more

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“I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?”

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“It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.”

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