1,237 Quotes About Cancer
- Author John Green
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But of course there is always a hamartia and yours is that oh, my God, even though you HAD FREAKING CANCER you give money to a company in exchange for the chance to acquire YET MORE CANCER.
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- Author Barbara Ehrenreich
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Breast cancer, I can now report, did not make me prettier or stronger, more feminine or spiritual. What it gave me, if you want to call this a “gift,” was a very personal, agonizing encounter with an ideological force in American culture that I had not been aware of before—one that encourages us to deny reality, submit cheerfully to misfortune, and blame only ourselves for our fate.
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- Author John Green
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You die in the middle of your life.
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- Author Dan Simmons
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The Great Change is when humankind accepts its role as part of the natural order of the universe instead of its role as a cancer
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- Author John Green
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Maybe I was supposed to hate Caroline Mathers or something because she’d been with Augustus, but I didn’t. I couldn’t see her very clearly amid all the tributes, but there didn’t seem to be much to hate. She seemed to be mostly a professional sick person, like me, which made me worry that when I died they’d have nothing to say about me except that I fought heroically, as if the only thing I’d ever done was Have Cancer.
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- Author Anthony Liccione
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Rather than you smoking a cigarette, the cigarette is really smoking you.
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- Author John Green
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But it's not a cancer book, because cancer books suck.
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- Author Chuck Klosterman
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And all I could do while I listened to this dude tell me how punk rock saved his life was think, Wow. Why did my friend waste all that time going to chemotherapy? I guess we should have just played him a bunch of shitty Black Flag records.
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- Author K. Howard Joslin
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Ann prayed because of a gut-wrenching, throbbing pain in her soul. She urgently begged the Lord for her life.
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