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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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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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Cancer is a curious thing…
Nobody knows what the cause is,
Though some pretend they do;
Its like some hidden assassin,
Waiting to strike at you.

Childless women get it,
And men when they retire.
It – W. H. Auden

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Cancer

The truth is, if you asked me to choose between winning the Tour de France and cancer, I would choose cancer. Odd as it sounds, I would rather have the title of cancer survivor than winner of the Tour, because of what it has done for me as a human being, a man, a husband, a son, and a father. – Lance Armstrong

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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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If I had given up everything that my life was about … Id let cancer win before it needed to. – Elizabeth Edwards

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