"[On suicide:] It's the only cause of death that can be used as a noun to describe the dead person. If you die of cancer you are not called 'a cancer.' If someone else shoots you, you are not referred to as 'a murder.' But if you shoot yourself, you are labeled as a suicide. Your death becomes your definition."

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Source : Joan Wickersham (2009). “The Suicide Index: Putting My Father's Death in Order”, p.204, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Joan Wickersham

#Suicide Quotes #Cancer Quotes #Nouns Quotes

“If we are to grow in love, the prisons of our egoism must be unlocked. This implies suffering, constant effort and repeated choices.”
“In Paris, you couldn't really turn around without seeing the result of lovers' bad decisions. An artist given to sexual excess was almost a clichÃ©, but no one seemed to mind. As long as you were making something good or interesting or sensational, you could have as many lovers as you wanted and ruin them all.”
“So in the drafting process, whenever I would discover something about what my character wanted or didn't want, I immediately just wanted my character to admit to that so I could get to the next, more interesting level in the story.”
“Contraction of theological influence has at once been the best measure, and the essential condition of intellectual advance.”
“While we may not mind being used, we resent deeply being made to feel discarded.”
“P.P.S. I am giving you telepathic hugs. P.P.P.S. But not in a telepathically lezzie way.”
“Guilt pins a fig-leaf; Innocence is its own adorning.”

Source : Anne Spencer, “At The Carnival”
“English football has just had a transfer window imposed for the first time, so it will be interesting to see how managers cope with the squads they have until it re-opens.”

Source : "High court hears campaign reform case" by Bill Mears, www.cnn.com. September 10, 2003.

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