"I was born with the devil in me,'……" — Erik Larson
"I was born with the devil in me,' [Holmes] wrote. 'I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing."
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26 Quotes by Erik Larson
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Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.
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Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because…
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Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a…
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No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck.
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Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world
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Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.
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Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
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I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.
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I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.
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I started reading the big histories and the small histories, the memoirs and so forth. At some point, I found…
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I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of…
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I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of…
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Art is born of humiliation.
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