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"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
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"A man's illness is his private territory and, no matter how much he loves you and how close you are, you stay an outsider. You are healthy."
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"Mary and Carrie and baby Grace and Ma had all had scarlet fever. The Nelsons across the creek had had it too, so there had been no one to help Pa and Laura."
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"When I go to the clinic next and sit with a tube in my arm and watch the poison go in, I'm in an attitude of abject passivity. It doesn't feel like fighting at all; it just feels like submitting."
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"Cases of sickness made up a very small percentage which in my opinion was normal. However, propaganda pamphlets dropped from aircraft were telling the workers to feign illness, and detailed instructions were given to them on how to do it."
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"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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"Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that. It's disheartening. Like, cancer is in the growth business, right? The taking-people-over business. But surely you haven't let it succeed prematurely."
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"Morrie was in a wheelchair full-time now, getting used to helpers lifting him like a heavy sack from the chair to the bed and the bed to the chair."
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"I felt Mr Willard had deserted me. I thought he must have planned it all along, but Buddy said No, his father simply couldn't stand the sight of sickness and especially his own son's sickness, because he thought all sickness was sickness of the will. Mr Willard had never been sick a day in his life."
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"My cancer is me. The tumors are made of me. They're made of me as surely as my brain and my heart are made of me. It is a civil war with a predetermined winner."
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"Television's Mr. Filth: that's me."
Television
"Just letting it out is one of the definitions of bad art."
Art
"I think childhood is to everyone a lost land."
Childhood
"I was given talent, and if you are given it, it is your obligation to use it."
Talent
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
Age
"Religion, you can't a handle on it, you just have to know or not know-people either believe or they don't believe."
Religion
"A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast."
Act
"It is a dangerous thing to have instant access to your emotions."
Emotional
"Metaphor is embodied in language."
Language
"The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?"
Metaphor
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