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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"ALS is like a lit candle: it melts your nerves and leaves your body a pile of wax.. you cannot support yourself standing.. you cannot sit up straight. By the end, if you are still alive.. your soul, perfectly awake, is imprisoned inside a limp husk.. like something from a science fiction movie, the man frozen inside his own flesh."
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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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"But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck."
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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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"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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"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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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
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"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."
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"The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy."
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship
"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation
"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
Language
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
Family
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."
Act
"This is the true joy in life the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap."
Life
"Fashions after all are only induced epidemics."
Society
"If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance."
Dance
"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
Son
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