"I do not commit to anything that would improve the quality of life at all from a physical point of view. I can't even fix the frozen plumbing in my house. All I can do is say, come on, this is how you can look at something in a new way. Maybe it's just a cloud to someone else, but look at it, isn't it like an elephant? And people are willing to pay me to show them because they themselves have completely lost that ability. That's why writers and visual artists are paid, it's the only thing that gives us, baggage over the weight limit, the right to exist. I am a bird on the back of civilization.
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Stephen KingAll Translations
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I do not commit to anything that would improve the quality of life at all from a physical point of view. I can't even fix the frozen plumbing in my house. All I can do is say, come on, this is how you can look at something in a new way. Maybe it's just a cloud to someone else, but look at it, isn't it like an elephant? And people are willing to pay me to show them because they themselves have completely lost that ability. That's why writers and visual artists are paid, it's the only thing that gives us, baggage over the weight limit, the right to exist. I am a bird on the back of civilization.
""Semmihez sem konyítok, ami fizikai szempontból egyáltalán javítana az élet minőségén. Még a befagyott vízvezetéket se tudom rendben hozni a házamban. Egyedül ahhoz értek, hogy azt mondjam, tessék, így lehet újszerűen szemlélni valamit. Lehet, hogy másnak az csak egy felhő, de nézzenek oda, nem olyan, mint egy elefánt? Az emberek pedig hajlandóak fizetni, hogy megmutassam nekik, mert ők maguk már teljesen elveszítették ezt a képességüket. Ezért fizetik az írókat és a képzőművészeket, csakis ez ad létjogosultságot nekünk, a súlyhatár fölötti poggyásznak. Madárka vagyok a civilizáció hátán."