We are focusing on the small details and hiding the misery in the world. Look at the smoker and we miss global warming, war, and the crap we eat — no… - Marjane Satrapi

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We are focusing on the small details and hiding the misery in the world. Look at the smoker and we miss global warming, war, and the crap we eat — not the bad guys but smoking. I smoke and they talk about cancer, I eat and they talk about cholesterol, I make love, it's AIDS. Before AIDS and cholesterol and cancer there's the pleasure of making love and eating and smoking. I have to die someday, so if the thing that gave me pleasure all of my life kills me instead of me going under a truck, that's fine. Besides, why should I live so that when I die I give fresh meat to the worms? I hope that I am rotted and they don't want to eat me. F@#$ck the worms.