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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
American Author
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
1907-1973, Anglo-American
Poet
My veins are
filled, once a week with a Neapolitan carpet cleaner
distilled from the Adriatic and I am as bald as an egg.
However I still get around and am mean to cats.
-- John Cheever
1912-1982, American Author
I don't think
makeup is rocket science or a cure for cancer.
-- Cindy Crawford
1966-, American Model,
Actress
I wish I had
the voice of Homer to sing of rectal carcinoma.
-- John B. S. Haldane
1892-1964, British Scientist,
Author
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
1933-, American Essayist
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