"No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries."

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Source : Leslie Jamison (2014). “The Empathy Exams: Essays”, p.9, Granta Books

Leslie Jamison

#Boundaries Quotes #Trauma Quotes #Wounds Quotes

“When I see a new artist I give myself a lot of time to reflect and decide whether it's art or not.”
“Deal with him, Hemingway!”
“I just want the future to happen faster. I can't imagine the future without robots.”
“Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.”
“I LOVE YOU SO MANY REASONS ' --- Before i met you I spent a lot of time meeting all kinds of people i had a lot of fun and learned a lot Though each person I met had great characteristics something was missing No one person had all the qualities that I had hoped a person could have- someone whose every action and thought I could respect someone who was very intelligent yet could also be fun-loving someone who was sensitive, yet virile exciting and sensuous someone who knew what they wanted out of life. a beautiful person inside and out I could not find a person like this until i met you”
“We give our best affections to the beautiful, only our second best to the useful.”
“... one of the blind spots of most Negroes is their failure to realize that small overtures from whites have a large significance... I now realize that this feeling inevitably takes possession of one in the bitter struggle for equality. Indeed, I share it. Yet I wonder how we can expect total acceptance to step full grown from the womb of prejudice, with no embryo or infancy or childhood stages.”
“The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State.”

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