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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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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
"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."
"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."
"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."
"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."
"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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"In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity."
"They're guys who want to screw around all the time, which interests me not at all. God knows we've done that, been there, and we don't want to do that any more."
"You can't start worrying about what's going to happen. You get spastic enough worrying about what's happening now."
"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."
"It's inappropriate and vulgar and absolutely unacceptable to use your private life to sell anything commercially."
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