"I needed people to deliver my feelings back to me in a form that was legible. Which is a superlative kind of empathy to seek, or to supply: an empathy that rearticulates more clearly what it's shown."

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Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.16, Granta Books

Leslie Jamison

#People Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Feelings Quotes

“When I was in top 40 bands, I always had to learn new material and new styles.”
“Let us beware of repentance without evidence.”
“What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.”
“I want to be black, to know black, to luxuriate in whatever I might be calling blackness at any particular time, but to do so in order to come out on the other side, to experience a humanity that is neither colorless nor reducible to color.”
“I always speak the truth. Not the whole truth, because there's no way, to say it all. Saying it all is literally impossible: words fail. Yet it's through this very impossibility that the truth holds onto the real.”

Source : "The Truth Was Always Revolutionary": Luc Rioual on Laurent Binet's The Seventh Function of Language", logger.believermag.com. August 11, 2017.
“I'm a director's actor; I'm a storyteller's actor.”
“If I can drop two touchdowns a game and win, I'll take it every time.”
“It was maddening how your best friend could twist the knobs inside of you so much that it hurt.”

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