James Atwood

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“Ideas are so much flat psychological surface unless some mirrored matter gives them cognitive lustre. This is why as a pragmatist I have so carefully posited ‘reality’ ab initio, and why throughout my whole discussion, I remain an epistemologist realist.”
—William James (1842–1910)

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