Hans Zinsser Quotes:
Ocupation: Physician
Life: November 17, 1878 - September 4, 1940
Birthday: November 17
Death: September 4
We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have sought its acquaintance wherever we could find it. And in this growing intimacy we have become increasingly impressed with the influence that this and other infectious diseases, which span - in their protoplasmic continuities - the entire history of mankind, have had upon the fates of men.
source: Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.6, Transaction Publishers
topic: Writing, Fate, Men, Infectious Diseases
