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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The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. – Susan Sontag

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Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style — but a particular kind of style. It is love of the exaggerated. – Susan Sontag

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A familys photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it. – Susan Sontag

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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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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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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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My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we dont want our lives to end. – John Barton

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Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. – Oliver Wendell Holmes,Jr.

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First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. – Epictetus

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