“I don't really know if it's the right thing to do, making new life. Kids grow up, generations take their place. What does it all come to? More hills bulldozed and more ocean fronts filled in? Faster cars and more cats run over? Who needs it?”

Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 15, The Song Is Over

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Japanese author, novelist 1949

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