"I think human life is absurd. I think it is completely, utterly absurd. There is this planet and it's this tiny place in the universe and then on this planet are crawling over it these little people who think that their lives are so incredibly important and, you know, an enormous amount of effort is spent killing each other, which just drives me completely nuts when I think about it, and making people poor while other people have whatever they want, and it's utterly absurd."
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"Michael Rosen's stories for life: The happy, silly, and sad", Outlook, BBC World Service (9 March 2023)
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Michael Rosen
Michael Rosen (born 7 May 1946) is an English poet and children's writer. He was the UK Children's Laureate from 2007 to 2009.
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