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"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
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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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"In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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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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"MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive."
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"Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."
American
"What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts."
Man
"Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not."
Health
"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."
Ethics
"Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself."
Man
"The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all."
Truth
"Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?"
Beauty
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
Communication
"You cannot be a hero without being a coward."
Being
"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
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