“Isn't it amazing the way the future succeeds in creating an appropriate past?”

— John Leonard

"Dash" (p. 146)
Private Lives in the Imperial City (1979)

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American critic, writer, and commentator 1939–2008

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Context: We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future. Spinoza, I think, pointed out that we ourselves can make experience valuable when, by imagination and reason, we turn it into foresight.