Compassion Quote by Miranda July

“She bludgeoned me with a look of such limitless compassion that I immediately began to cry.”

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Would she understand that time had stopped while she was gone.

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The whole thing of working in all these different mediums, it's just so that I can always be playing hooky from one of them. I can always be rebelling against my boss. Like, I'm supposed to be writing this book, but - heh heh heh - I'm writing a movie, secretly. I'm procrastinating, and in my off-hours I'm working on…

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Are you angry? Punch a pillow. Was it satisfying? Not hardly. These days people are too angry for punching. What you might try is stabbing. Take an old pillow and lay it on the front lawn. Stab it with a big pointy knife. Again and again and again. Stab hard enough for the point of the knife to go into…

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It was a tiny sound but it woke me up because it was a human sound.

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I'm not a cinephile. My films don't reference films. I'm more interested in rhythm and feeling.

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I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your own thoughts, and so with nothing resolved you just go ahead and have unprotected sex. The moment I became pregnant, everything became out of gait. None of those fears seem relevant in the same way, and that's so…

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When I had a baby, I was consumed with my body.

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I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.

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When you need empathy, you cannot give empathy.

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But victimhood was seductive, a release from responsibility and caring. Fear would be transmuted into weary resignation; failure would no longer generate guilt but,…

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