James Richardson (1950) American poet
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Vectors: Aphorisms and Ten Second Essays (2001)
“To define what we are is to reduce and distort what we are: to say that we are nothing but our desires or nothing but our self-interest is to misrepresent us.”
Source: The Atheist’s Way (2009), p. 62
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