"Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of…" — Erik Larson
"Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead."
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26 Quotes by Erik Larson
Erik Larson has 26 quotes on this site.
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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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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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I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
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Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must…
— Aristophanes
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The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.
— Aristotle
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Punk will never be dead to me. It's my life. I can never just drop this lifestyle. It embodies me.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent…
— David Attenborough
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Canada was built on dead beavers.
— Margaret Atwood
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
— Margaret Atwood
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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India of the ages is not dead nor has she spoken her last creative word; she lives and has still…
— Sri Aurobindo
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It was a wrong number that started it, the telephone ringing three times in the dead of night, and the…
— Paul Auster
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The dead of midnight is the noon of thought.
— Anna Letitia Barbauld
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I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.
— Francis Bacon
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