Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, compiled by James B. Simpson. 1988.
NUMBER:
7004
AUTHOR:
Walker Percy
QUOTATION:
[Tuberculosis was] the best disease I ever had. If I hadn’t had it, I might be a second-rate shrink practicing in Birmingham, at best.
ATTRIBUTION:
On convalescence that permitted him to read voraciously and turned his interest from psychiatry to writing, quoted by Malcolm Jones “Moralist of the South” NY Times 22 Mar 87
SUBJECTS:
Communications & the Arts: Literature: Writers & Editors
