"When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.
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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If literature does one thing, it makes you more empathetic by making you live other lives and feel t...
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