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"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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"Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."
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"I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it."
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"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
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"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."
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"Misery is a communicable disease."
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"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
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"The world's a hard place, Danny. It don't care. It don't hate you and me, but it don't love us, either. Terrible things happen in the world, and they're things no one can explain. Good people die in bad, painful ways and leave the folks that love them all alone. Sometimes it seems like it's only the bad people who stay healthy and prosper. The world don't love you, but your momma does and so do I."
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"Better to be dirty than dead."
Life
"You play the game to the end. That's how it works, play to the end."
Success
"Try any goddam thing you like, no matter how boringly normal or outrageous. If it works, fine. If it doesn't, toss it. Toss it even if you love it."
Creativity
"It was how wars really ended, Dieffenbaker supposed -- not at truce tables but in cancer wards and office cafeterias and traffic jams. Wars died one tiny piece at a time, each piece something that fell like a memory, each lost like an echo that fades in winding hills. In the end even war ran up the white flag. Or so he hoped. He hoped that in the end even war surrendered."
War
"Pack up all my care and woe, blackbird, bye-bye."
Life
"Because that was then and this is now. Because the past is gone, even though it defines the present."
Truth
"The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out."
Emotional
"Reading takes time, and the glass teat takes too much of it."
Reading
"One man may shoot himself in the forehead with a .38 and wake up in the hospital. Another may shoot himself in the forehead with a .22 and wake up in hell...if there is such a place. I tend to believe it's here on earth, possibly in New Jersey."
Pain
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