"Empathy isnâ€™t just listening, itâ€™s asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to. Empathy requires inquiry as much as imagination. Empathy requires knowing you know nothing. Empathy means acknowledging a horizon of context that extends perpetually beyond what you can see."

-- Leslie Jamison

#Mean Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Imagination Quotes

“Mankind's self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order.”
“I sort of have to self-censor sometimes.”
“I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.”
“The piddling ignoramuses who deny that there is a distinct, discernible, objective western tradition are just woozy literati.”
“The New York waiter ... knows more than you do about everything. He disapproves of your taste in food and clothing, your gauche manners, your miserliness, and sometimes, it seems, of your very existence, which he tries to ignore.”

Source : Kate Simon (1959). “New York Places & Pleasures: An Uncommon Guidebook. Drawings by Bob Gill”
“You know you've lived in LA to long when what you fear most about prison is a lack of organic produce.”
“Principles are a dangerous form of social dynamite.”
“I'm going to marry my novels and have little short stories for children.”

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