Tuberculosis quotes

Tuberculosis

14 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.

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Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag Essayist, Critic, Activist

"The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured."

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