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Leslie Jamison Quote: “There was a little voice in me that considered the possibility that perhaps there were people who didn’t spend hours every day trying to decide if their desperate desire to drink had preceded recovery meetings or been created by them. But it irritated me, that voice. I tried not to listen to it.”

101. “There was a little voice in me that considered the possibility that perhaps there were people who didn’t spend hours every day trying to decide if their desperate desire to drink had preceded recovery meetings or been created by them. But it irritated me, that voice. I tried not to listen to it.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.”

102. “Though there might not be any easy answers to the problem of poverty, its most compelling scribes do not resign themselves to representation solely for the sake of those age-old verities of truth and beauty.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally – that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then – if you’re hard on yourself, in good ways – pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.”

103. “I think of empathy as a set of cumulative effects, ideally – that it can be a force shaping your habits, shaping where you put your attention and then – if you’re hard on yourself, in good ways – pushing you to translate that attention into action, on whatever scale.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “Sometimes a person needs help because she needs it, not because her story is compelling or noble or strange enough to earn it, and sometimes you just do what you can. It doesn’t make you any better, or any worse. It doesn’t change you at all, except for the split second when you imagine that day when you will be the one who has to ask.”

104. “Sometimes a person needs help because she needs it, not because her story is compelling or noble or strange enough to earn it, and sometimes you just do what you can. It doesn’t make you any better, or any worse. It doesn’t change you at all, except for the split second when you imagine that day when you will be the one who has to ask.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “I wanted to tell you: the world is full of stories. I wanted to tell you: Baby, I’ve seen such incredible things in this life. You weren’t a baby yet. You were a possibility. But I wanted to tell you that every person you’d ever meet would hold an infinite world inside. It was one of the only promises I could make to you in good conscience.”

105. “I wanted to tell you: the world is full of stories. I wanted to tell you: Baby, I’ve seen such incredible things in this life. You weren’t a baby yet. You were a possibility. But I wanted to tell you that every person you’d ever meet would hold an infinite world inside. It was one of the only promises I could make to you in good conscience.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “We watch a character define himself entirely through what he will not claim. If I could choose one item from my entire apartment, what would I disown? It might be my trash can full of ripped paper packets, which might mean that this pile of packets is my most honest expression of self.”

106. “We watch a character define himself entirely through what he will not claim. If I could choose one item from my entire apartment, what would I disown? It might be my trash can full of ripped paper packets, which might mean that this pile of packets is my most honest expression of self.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “Sometimes I feel I owe a stranger nothing, and then I feel I owe him everything; because he fought and I didn’t, because I dismissed him or misunderstood him, because I forgot, for a moment, that his life – like everyone else’s – holds more than I could ever possibly see.”

107. “Sometimes I feel I owe a stranger nothing, and then I feel I owe him everything; because he fought and I didn’t, because I dismissed him or misunderstood him, because I forgot, for a moment, that his life – like everyone else’s – holds more than I could ever possibly see.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “You can reclaim some things once you’re ready; they’ve been waiting for you patiently. But some things are just lost for good.”

108. “You can reclaim some things once you’re ready; they’ve been waiting for you patiently. But some things are just lost for good.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.”

109. “We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “In the Whole Wide World Museum, Grover visits “The Things You See in the Sky Room”, and the room full of “Long Thin Things You Can Write With”, where a carrot has mistakingly wound up, so he returns it to an elegant marble pedestal in the middle of the otherwise empty “Carrot Room”. As Grover reaches the end of the exhibit, he wonders: “Where did they put everything else?” That’s when he reaches the wooden door marked: “Everything Else”. When he opens it, of course, it’s just the exit.”

110. “In the Whole Wide World Museum, Grover visits “The Things You See in the Sky Room”, and the room full of “Long Thin Things You Can Write With”, where a carrot has mistakingly wound up, so he returns it to an elegant marble pedestal in the middle of the otherwise empty “Carrot Room”. As Grover reaches the end of the exhibit, he wonders: “Where did they put everything else?” That’s when he reaches the wooden door marked: “Everything Else”. When he opens it, of course, it’s just the exit.”

— Leslie Jamison

Leslie Jamison Quote: “If addiction stories run on the fuel of darkness – the hypnotic spiral of an ongoing, deepening crisis – then recovery is often seen as the narrative slack, the dull terrain of wellness, a tedious addendum to the riveting blaze. I wasn’t immune; I’d always been enthralled by stories of wreckage. But I wanted to know if stories about getting better could ever be as compelling as stories about falling apart.”

111. “If addiction stories run on the fuel of darkness – the hypnotic spiral of an ongoing, deepening crisis – then recovery is often seen as the narrative slack, the dull terrain of wellness, a tedious addendum to the riveting blaze. I wasn’t immune; I’d always been enthralled by stories of wreckage. But I wanted to know if stories about getting better could ever be as compelling as stories about falling apart.”

— Leslie Jamison

Leslie Jamison Quote: “Another person’s pain registers as an experience in the perceiver: empathy as forced symmetry, a bodily echo.”

112. “Another person’s pain registers as an experience in the perceiver: empathy as forced symmetry, a bodily echo.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “I tell myself I can agree with a declaration of pain without being certain I agree with the declaration of its cause.”

113. “I tell myself I can agree with a declaration of pain without being certain I agree with the declaration of its cause.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “I wanted nothing more than to be absent from my own life.”

114. “I wanted nothing more than to be absent from my own life.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “The unease of the tour is not the discomfort of being problematically present – South Central mediated by air-conditioning vents – so much as the discomfort of an abiding absence – a pattern of always being elsewhere, far away, our of ear- and eye- and gun-shot, humming beach to bistro along the Pacific Coast Highway.”

115. “The unease of the tour is not the discomfort of being problematically present – South Central mediated by air-conditioning vents – so much as the discomfort of an abiding absence – a pattern of always being elsewhere, far away, our of ear- and eye- and gun-shot, humming beach to bistro along the Pacific Coast Highway.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.”

116. “Irony is easier than hopeless silence but braver than flight.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “It was more that I’d grown deeply skeptical of skepticism itself. It seemed much easier to poke holes in things – people, programs, systems of belief – than to construct them, stand behind them, or at least take them seriously. That ready-made dismissiveness banished too much mystery and wonder.”

117. “It was more that I’d grown deeply skeptical of skepticism itself. It seemed much easier to poke holes in things – people, programs, systems of belief – than to construct them, stand behind them, or at least take them seriously. That ready-made dismissiveness banished too much mystery and wonder.”

— Leslie Jamison

Leslie Jamison Quote: “Maybe desire and demand are just the same song played at different frequencies.”

118. “Maybe desire and demand are just the same song played at different frequencies.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “Dave’s ghost was everywhere: eating pea-shoot risotto, talking to the woman behind the bar. I was even nostalgic for the things I hadn’t been able to stand.”

119. “Dave’s ghost was everywhere: eating pea-shoot risotto, talking to the woman behind the bar. I was even nostalgic for the things I hadn’t been able to stand.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “My loneliness was a full-time job.”

120. “My loneliness was a full-time job.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “The neglect here is almost unimaginable – and it’s not just neglect from the Beckley staff but from the world itself – the world that has carried on with its daily business while keeping all these men invisibly deposited elsewhere, in a slew of the nation’s most obscure corners. On the outside, you can think about prison for a moment and then you can think about something else.”

121. “The neglect here is almost unimaginable – and it’s not just neglect from the Beckley staff but from the world itself – the world that has carried on with its daily business while keeping all these men invisibly deposited elsewhere, in a slew of the nation’s most obscure corners. On the outside, you can think about prison for a moment and then you can think about something else.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “We get so used to the stories we tell about ourselves. This is why we sometimes need to find ourselves in the stories of others.”

122. “We get so used to the stories we tell about ourselves. This is why we sometimes need to find ourselves in the stories of others.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “When we criticize sentimentality, perhaps part of what we fear is the possibility that it allows us to usurp the texts we read, insert ourselves and our emotional needs too aggressively into their narratives, clog their situations and their syntax with our tears. Which brings us back to the danger that we’re mainly crying for ourselves, or at least to feel ourselves cry.”

123. “When we criticize sentimentality, perhaps part of what we fear is the possibility that it allows us to usurp the texts we read, insert ourselves and our emotional needs too aggressively into their narratives, clog their situations and their syntax with our tears. Which brings us back to the danger that we’re mainly crying for ourselves, or at least to feel ourselves cry.”

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Leslie Jamison Quote: “I wonder if empathy has always been this, in every case: just a bout of hypothetical self-pity projected onto someone else. Is this ultimately just solipsism?”

124. “I wonder if empathy has always been this, in every case: just a bout of hypothetical self-pity projected onto someone else. Is this ultimately just solipsism?”

— Leslie Jamison

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