"I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and youâ€™re somehow able to look at that him and know enough about what situation he was in to know that he had to do that and not to hit back. Thatâ€™s empathy, and nothing ever happens in writing that has that kind of moral heroism about it."

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Source : Interview with Allie Tollaksen, ndsmcobserver.com. January 22, 2014.

John Jeremiah Sullivan

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“For the fifth year in a row, the Bush budget cuts city core services to pay for wealthy tax breaks. And once again, the mayor's requests were not funded.”
“When a thing bores you, do not do it.”
“stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves”
“Do unto others, then run”
“I want to wake up with you every morning and fall asleep beside you each night.”
“I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help them, be with them when their end comes close. Sit with them - you don't even have to talk. You don't have to do anything but really be there with them.”
“As one who was a prosecutor for many years, I can tell you that having a tape recording of interrogations would help everybody. It would make clear if there had been improper pressure exerted on a defendant or witness, and it would also protect the interrogating officer from false claims that such pressure had been brought to bear.”

Source : "All Police Interrogations Should Be Tape-Recorded". Article by Eliot Spitzer, www.slate.com. October 08, 2012.
“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

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