Wednesday, 29 August 2012

Story of someone's life


"Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions."

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., novelist (1922-2007)

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