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Leslie Jamison quotes: Pain that gets performed is still pain.

Pain that gets performed is still pain.

Leslie Jamison quotes: We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want to eat it, too.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

Empathy is cloaked in our actions - as in, we might be experiencing empathy but not realize it's empathy.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Empathy requires knowing that you know nothing.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Whatever we can't hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.

Whatever we can't hold, we hang on a hook that will hold it.

Leslie Jamison quotes: everything proceeds from losing our place.

everything proceeds from losing our place.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Feeling something was never simply a state of submission but always, also, a process of construction.

Feeling something was never simply a state of submission but always, also, a process of construction.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Oscar Wilde summed up the indignation: A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Oscar Wilde summed up the indignation: A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.

Leslie Jamison quotes: It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.

Leslie Jamison quotes: I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

I loved the full heat of being drunk, like I was made of melting chocolate and spreading in all directions.

Leslie Jamison quotes: I didn't enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.

I didn't enjoy what was happening but I enjoyed who I was while I was watching it. It offered evidence of my own inclination toward empathy.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

Imagining someone else's pain with too much surety can be as damaging as failing to imagine it.

Leslie Jamison quotes: When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn't know if this was empathy or theft.

When bad things happened to other people, I imagined them happening to me. I didn't know if this was empathy or theft.

Leslie Jamison quotes: But it's exhausting to keep tabs on how much someone is feeling for you. It can make you forget that they feel too.

But it's exhausting to keep tabs on how much someone is feeling for you. It can make you forget that they feel too.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

Facts are aligned on shelves as well, necessarily chosen and arranged, assigned value by explanations neatly stuck where prices might have been.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Freedom from one man is just another one.

Freedom from one man is just another one.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

Empathy means realizing no trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

Redeeming subjects from cliche is its own pleasure and privilege.

Leslie Jamison quotes: No trauma has discrete edges. Trauma bleeds. Out of wounds and across boundaries.

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

Leslie Jamison quotes: Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

Commonality doesn't inoculate against hurt.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.

Leslie Jamison quotes: How do we represent female pain without producing a culture in which this pain has been fetishized to the point of fantasy or imperative?

How do we represent female pain without producing a culture in which this pain has been fetishized to the point of fantasy or imperative?

Leslie Jamison quotes: I'd be lying if I wrote that I remember exactly what he said. I don't. Which is the sad half life of arguments - we usually remember our side better.

I'd be lying if I wrote that I remember exactly what he said. I don't. Which is the sad half life of arguments - we usually remember our side better.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Empathy is a kind of care but it's not the only kind of care, and it's not always enough.

Empathy is a kind of care but it's not the only kind of care, and it's not always enough.

Leslie Jamison quotes: This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us, or we to it. It's a quick fix of empathy.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead?

Why do I hunger for significant barometers but find myself tethered to banality instead?

Leslie Jamison quotes: I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

I'm happy not knowing. Most of the time (except when I'm a neurotic mess about uncertainty) I feel glad that the horizon is a mystery.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

Learning the edges or limits or sources of friction in empathy was one of the big issues for me.

Leslie Jamison quotes: Sometimes we're all trying to purge something. And what we're trying to purge resists our purging.

Sometimes we're all trying to purge something. And what we're trying to purge resists our purging.