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Fiction is a tonic for empathy

said by Tamir Barzilai

“I've called fiction a tonic for empathy. Non-fiction is teaching you things that you don't know; it lives most of the time in the knowledge realm. With fiction specifically, it lives in the emotions.”

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merchant of masksEp 6 · with Logan Macnair
Listen at 1:27:37 Read it in the transcript

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Fiction as a Tonic for Empathy

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