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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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"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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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them."
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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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"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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"Because there is no glory in illness. There is no meaning to it. There is no honor in dying of."
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"There is only one things in this world shittier than biting it from cancer when you're sixteen, and that's having a kid who bites it from cancer."
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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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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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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."
Illness
"I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look."
Beginning
"I think your whole life shows in your face and you should be proud of that."
Life
"I don't sit around thinking that I'd like to have another husband; only another man would make me think that way."
Husband
"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."
Now
"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly."
Imagination
"When you talk about a great actor, you're not talking about Tom Cruise."
Actor
"Find me a man who's interesting enough to have dinner with and I'll be happy."
Man
"A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?"
Man
"Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life."
Life
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