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“This is what differentiates sympathy from empathy. No matter how much I care for you, it's not until I recognize me in you and you in me that the veil of gauze is lifted on the world.”
― Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
― Cat Daddy: What the World's Most Incorrigible Cat Taught Me About Life, Love, and Coming Clean
“If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel the pain of others. Ideologues don't feel the pain of others because they haven't imaginatively got under their skins.”
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“...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you’ve just read a book by one of those people.”
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“Fiction challenges us and works its miracles by placing us in the skin of another human being and teaching us empathy.”
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“A book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else's head. You see out of the world through somebody else's eyes. It's very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you've just read a book by one of those people.”
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Jo’s 2025 Year in Books
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