James Atwood

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“As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to magnanimity, and appeals to sympathy or justice, are folly when we are dealing with human crocodiles and boa-constrictors.”
—William James (1842–1910)

“We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?”
—Margaret Atwood (b. 1939)