Erik Larson Quotes

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• Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
• Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of…
• Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of place. I fell…
• No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
• Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
• Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.
• Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
• I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
• I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.
• I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found the diary of William E.…
• I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of my manuscripts back to myself…
• I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department.
• I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
• Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
• There's something so relentless and foul about Hitler and his people, and the way things progressed from year to year. It just got to me…
• Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesmanship, his manner and in the violence which overwhelmed…
• Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a bookstore, and let that person choose his…
• I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
• The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
• It was so easy to disappear, so easy to deny knowledge, so very easy in the smoke and din to mask that something dark had…

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