Quote by Walter Lord

““This was the era when gentlemen formally offered their services to "unprotected ladies" at the start of an Atlantic voyage.””

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“Seen and unseen, the great and the unknown tumbled together in a writhing heap as the bow plunged deeper and the stern rose higher.”

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“Robertson called his ship the Titan; the White Star Line called its ship the Titanic. This is the story of her last night.”

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“It is a rash man indeed who would set himself up as final arbiter on all that happened the incredible night the Titanic went…

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“Before the Titanic, all was quiet. Afterward all was tumult. That is why, to anybody who lived at the time, the Titanic more than…

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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like…

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“The night was a magnificent confirmation of "women and children first," yet somehow the loss rate was higher for Third Class children than First…

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Someone once told me the one thread that runs through them all is a premium on personal courage - not intellectual courage, but just…

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The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

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“Gentry crept out. There, stuck in the slime a few feet away, was a huge unexploded bomb. It was about the size of a…

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You have to study the people and the ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.

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Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

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It's a funny thing, but today the Titanic is probably much more - that is people are much more aware of it than they…

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