"The pain is what you make of it. You have to find something in it that yields. I understood my guiding imperative as: keep bleeding, but find some love in the blood."

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Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.167, Granta Books

Leslie Jamison

#Pain Quotes #Yield Quotes #Blood Quotes

“Jeans have become this neutral foundational garment. If you want to show you are relaxed, if you want to be relaxed, you wear jeans.”
“In a process that had begun in the 1980s and suddenly accelerated in the early 2000s ... [t]he peaks of great wealth grew higher, rising up beyond the clouds, while the valleys of poverty sank lower into perpetual shadow. The once broad plateau of the middle class eroded away into a narrow ledge, with the white-knuckled occupants holding on for dear life.”
“You either evolve or you don't. I don't like old people on a rock n' roll stage. I think they look pathetic, me included. And the fact that I represent an era means I can't just go out there and do all new stuff. They would all say, 'Sing 'White Rabbit,'' and I'd say no? That's rude.”
“Ninety years ago I was a freak. Today I'm an amateur.”
“I always carry my classic black-and-white tux and custom-made George Esquivel saddle shoes.”
“This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing ***** were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime.”
“I used a Luma crane, a wounderful device; it makes the camera able to go anywhere. It was also used on Friday the 13th Part 3.”
“We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.”

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