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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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"Serious illness doesn't bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host."
"The good thing about having this illness is that it allows me to be a little bit crazy."
"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."
"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."
"There's a phenomenology of being sick, one that depends on temperament, personal history, and the culture which we live in."
"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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"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
"An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it."
"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."
"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
"Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it."
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
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