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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"I did not fully understand the dread term 'terminal illness' until I saw Heathrow for myself."
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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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"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."
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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"Support Group featured a rotating cast of characters in various states of tumor-driven unwellness. Why did the cast rotate? A side effect of dying."
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"I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it."
Discipline
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
Expression
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."
Change
"The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office."
War
"Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes."
Mistake
"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't."
Wisdom
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing-a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
Mortality
"If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do."
Nothing
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life."
Philosophy
"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post."
Love
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