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Author - Leslie Jamison
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cliche
Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part....
fluency
It hurts to watch the fluency of a body acclimated to its shackling.
tourism
This is the grand fiction of tourism, that bringing our bodies somewhere draws that place closer to us,....
empathy
Empathy isn't just listening, it's asking the questions whose answers need to be listened to.
love
Empathy is a kind of care but it’s not the only kind of care, and it’s not always enough.
metaphor
Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging "Say....
sentiment
We think we should have to work in order to feel. We want to have our cake resist us; and then we want....
silence
Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.
pain
We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.
empathy
We like who we become in response to injustice: it makes it easy to choose a side. Our capacity to care,....
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