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"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
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"Every medicine is vain."
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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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"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."
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"Why should I have been surprised?Hunters walk the forestwithout a sound.The hunter, strapped to his rifle,the fox on his feet of silk,the serpent on his empire of muscles-all move in a stillness,hungry, careful, intent.Just as the cancerentered the forest of my body,without a sound."
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"I love the imagery of struggle. I sometimes wish I were suffering in a good cause, or risking my life for the good of others, instead of just being a gravely endangered patient. Allow me to inform you, though, that when you sit in a room with a set of other finalists, and kindly people bring a huge transparent bag of poison and plug it into your arm, and you either read or don't read a book while the venom sack gradually empties itself into your system, the image of the ardent solider is the very last one that will occur to you. You feel swamped with passivity and impotence: dissolving in powerlessness like a sugar lump in water."
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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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"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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"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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"My biggest excuse to others and myself was that I had writer's block, as if it was some kind of illness."
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"There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."
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"Therapy, as opposed to analysis, is a whole construct of myth, beautiful and creative."
Myth
"The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination."
Imagination
"Everything we do has consequences."
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"People endure what they endure and they deal with it. It may corrupt them. It may lead them into all sorts of compensatory excesses."
People
"I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent."
Age
"Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty."
Poetry
"As a piece of literacy criticism, Freud's best writing is about Dostoyevsky. It's a kind of displaced literacy criticism."
Criticism
"God, I'm such a lazy writer - I can't even think up new names."
God
"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
"The trouble with words is that you never know whose mouths they have been in."
Trouble
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