". . . why some men choose to……" — Erik Larson
". . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow."
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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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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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More Allotment Quotes
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Why be saddled with this thing called life expectancy? Of what relevance to an individual is such a statistic? Am…
— Robert Breault
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This power becomes particularly irresistible when exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, are able also to…
— Pope Pius XI
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Rules are to be initiated for the allotment of scarce raw materials etc; and their use and processing for other…
— Hjalmar Schacht
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Yet the small house, probably more than anything else that man has done, has made the face of Australia and…
— Robin Boyd
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Toil is man's allotment; toil of brain, or toil of hands, or a grief that's more than either, the grief…
— Herman Melville
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We have a funny concept of time in this culture. We revere it as we revere money, yet we rarely…
— Jan Phillips
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Many practitioners think there is some giant balance scale, where someone is keeping track, like Santa Claus, and that will…
— Frederick Lenz
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As I get considerably beyond the biblical allotment of three score years and ten, I feel with increasing intensity that…
— Norman Maclean
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Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose…
— Erik Larson
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