Tumor Analogy Quotes

Slums could be thought of as the development of a special organ, or they could be thought of as a tumor that's grown, and in some ways is unhealthy and could ultimately lead to the city's destruction. My own feeling is that slums are probably a bit of both.

I need to tell a story. It's an obsession. Each story is a seed inside of me that starts to grow and grow, like a tumor, and I have to deal with it sooner or later.

Love needs room to grow. Like a rose. Or a tumor.

The effect of power and publicity on all men is an aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies.

Humans on the Earth behave in some ways like a pathogenic micro-organism, or like the cells of a tumor.

To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

The real self and the public self are intertwined, like a tumor around an organ, and you can't cut the tumor or you'll kill the organ, so they live together, until the tumor chokes the organ off - but which self is the tumor?. Or it's like something out of Star Trek. The Borg.

Lust is a mysterious wound in the side of humanity; or rather, at the very source of its life! To confound this lust in man with that desire which unites the sexes is like confusing a tumor with the very organ which it devours, a tumor whose very deformity horribly reproduces the shape.