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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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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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"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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"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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"Fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles."
Politics
"The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years."
Affection
"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
Emotion
"What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?"
Car
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."
Future
"He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
Politics
"The love of economy is the root of all virtue."
Love
"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."
Reflection
"The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older."
Change
"Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else."
Love
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