Quote by Susan Sontag
Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or i

Cancer patients are lied to, not just because the disease is (or is thought to be) a death sentence, but because it is felt to be obscene — in the original meaning of that word: ill-omened, abominable, repugnant to the senses. – Susan Sontag

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. – Susan Sontag

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Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. – Susan Sontag

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I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. – Susan Sontag

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We need cancer because, by the very fact of its insurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. – Gilbert Adair

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Without cancer, I never would have won a single Tour de France. Cancer taught me a plan for more purposeful living, and that in turn taught me how to train and to win more purposefully. It taught me that pain has a reason, and that sometimes the experience of losing things – Lance Armstrong

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I wish I had the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma. – J.B.S. Haldane

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Nobody knows what the cause is, though some pretend they do; it like some hidden assassin waiting to strike at you. Childless women get it, and men when they retire; it as if there had to be some outlet for their foiled creative fire. – W. H. Auden

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Mockery is often the result of a poverty of wit. – Jean De La Bruyere

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Its like, once youve seen Tom Hanks win the Golden Globes, the Oscars, youve seen his wife, what kind of car he drives, when you watch his movies, you cant fully get really lost in them. – Justin Theroux

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