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"Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such as it is, and kill most of your people; but that you will also poison the fish i… - Walter Tevis
"Do you realize that you will not only wreck your civilization, such as it is, and kill most of your people; but that you will also poison the fish in your rivers, the squirrels in your trees, the flocks of birds, the soil, the water? There are times when you seem, to us, like apes loose in a museum, carrying knives, slashing the canvases, breaking the statuary with hammers."
For a moment Bryce did not speak. Then he said, "But it was human beings who painted the pictures, made the statues."
"Only a few human beings," Newton said. "Only a few."
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About Walter Tevis
Walter Tevis (February 28, 1928 – August 9, 1984) was an American novelist and short story writer.
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Walter S. Tevis
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Walter Stone Tevis
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"I'm like everybody else. This kind of living ain't much better than being dead." He laughed again, shaking his head from side to side. "And it ain't much better on the outside, to tell the truth. No real work to do, except the same kind of crap you do in here. At the Worker Dormitories they told us, 'Labor fulfills.' Horseshit."
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