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“ Metaphors are tiny saviors leading the way out of sentimentality, small disciples of Pound, urging Say it new! Say it new! It's hard for emotion to feel flat if its language is suitably novel, to feel excessive if its rendering is suitably opaque. Metaphors translate emotion into surprising and sublime language, but they also help us deflect and diffuse the glare of revelation. ”

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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?

~ Leslie Jamison

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

~ Leslie Jamison

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

~ Leslie Jamison

Freedom from one man is just another one.

~ Leslie Jamison