James Atwood

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“There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.”
—Henry James (1843–1916)

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