Leslie Jamison
Books by Leslie Jamison
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The Empathy Exams Essays
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The recovering
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Quotes by Leslie Jamison
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Freedom from one man is just another one.
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We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.
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Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.
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A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn't wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human— and isn't granting it one of the most important gifts we can ever give?
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A cry for attention is positioned as a crime, as if attention were inherently a selfish thing to want. But isn't wanting attention one of the most fundamental traits of being human— and isn't granting it one of the most important gifts we can ever give?
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Pain without cause is a pain we can't trust. We assume it's been chosen or fabricated.
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Freedom from one man is just another one.
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We want our wounds to speak for themselves, but usually we end up having to speak for them.
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Somebody once asked me how I define sobriety, and my response was 'liberation from dependence.'
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Whenever I've been stuck on a project, it's always brought me solace to the return to books that moved me in the past. It's a nice way to get outside my own head; and it brings me back to one of the most important reasons I write at all: to bring some pleasure to readers, to make them think or feel.
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After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story or a novel, I find that when it's still fresh in my mind I'm either thoroughly sick of its flaws or completely blind to them. Either way, I'm unable to make substantive edits of any value.
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You pass the old L.A. County jail, which is surprisingly beautiful. It's got a handsome stone facade and stately columns. The new L.A. County jail - called The Twin Towers - isn't beautiful at all; it's a stucco panopticon the color of sick flesh.
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The 'here' of Watts is pastel houses with window gratings in curly patterns. 'Here' is yard sales with bins full of stuffed animals and used water guns. Here is Crips turf.
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There's something about that puritanical narrative of progress and upward mobility and work ethic that the glorification of abstinence fits pretty neatly into. That pairs with the fact that 12-step recovery has had too large a monopoly on how treatment is understood in America.
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The global phenomenon of poverty tourism - or 'poorism' - has become increasingly popular during the past few years. Tourists pay to be guided through the favelas of Brazil and the shantytowns of South Africa. The recently opened Los Angeles Gang Tour carries visitors through battle-scarred territories of urban violence and deprivation.
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The idea that a story has to be 'exceptional' in order to be worth telling is curious to me. What if we looked at every single person's story as a site of possibly infinite meaning? What if we came to believe that there isn't hubris or narcissism in thinking your story might be worth sharing - only a sense of curiosity and offering?
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The publishing industry, unsurprisingly, is full of different people who love different things and express that love in different languages. Find the people, the editors and agents, with whom you share some language, and some sense of what makes literature worth reading.
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