"To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth."

-- Samuel Beckett

#Filth Quotes #Forbidden Quotes

“From early childhood, I was interested in understanding how the world worked, and assumed I would be some kind of physical scientist or chemist. But the truth was, I didn't know there was another kind of world, the inner world, that was just as interesting, if not more relevant, than what was going on in the outside world.”
“I am beguiled by your physical beauty, and I am moved by how head-over-heels in love with books you are. And nowhere else have I found such thoughtful and literate reportage on the state of the American soul, as that soul makes itself known in the books we write.”
“Only through art can we get outside of ourselves and know another's view of the universe which is not the same as ours and see landscapes which otherwise would remain unknown to us like the landscapes of the moon. Thanks to art, instead of seeing a single world, our own, we see it multiply until we have before us as many worlds as there are original artists.”
“Refinancing doesn't reduce your debt, it just restructures it, so be clear about what you want to achieve with a refi.”
“If we say that monsters [people who do terrible evil] are beyond forgiving, we give them a power they should never have...they are given the power to keep their evil alive in the hearts of those who suffered most. We give them power to condemn their victims to live forever with the hurting memory of their painful pasts. We give the monsters the last word.”
“I don't think I'm going to be priest material.”
“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.”

Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.167, Granta Books
“It is one thing to be awakened to injustice and quite another to be willing to be inconvenienced and interrupted to do something about it.”

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