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Pain that gets performed is still pain.
— Leslie Jamison
We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.
— Leslie Jamison
Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.
— Leslie Jamison
Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.
— Leslie Jamison
Whatever we can't hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.
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everything proceeds from losing our place.
— Leslie Jamison
Feeling something was never simply a state of submission but always, also, a process of construction.
— Leslie Jamison
Oscar Wilde summed up the indignation: A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
— Leslie Jamison
It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
— Leslie Jamison
I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.
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I didn't enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.
— Leslie Jamison
Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.
— Leslie Jamison
When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn't know if this was empathy or theft.
— Leslie Jamison
But it's exhausting to keep tabs on how much someone is feeling for you. It can make you forget that they feel too.
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Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.
— Leslie Jamison
Facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.
— Leslie Jamison
Freedom from one man is just another one.
— Leslie Jamison
Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.
— Leslie Jamison
Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.
— Leslie Jamison
Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.
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Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.
— Leslie Jamison
Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.
— Leslie Jamison
How do we represent female pain without producing a culture in which this pain has been fetishized to the point of fantasy or imperative?
— Leslie Jamison
I'd be lying if I wrote that I remember exactly what he said. I don't. Which is the sad half life of arguments - we usually remember our side better.
— Leslie Jamison
Empathy is a kind of care but it's not the only kind of care, and it's not always enough.
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This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.
— Leslie Jamison
Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead?
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I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.
— Leslie Jamison
