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Erik Larson quotes

American Author January 3, 1954

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She had a brief affair with a novelist, W. L. River, whose Death of a Young Man had been published several years earlier. He called her Motsie and pledged himself to her in letters composed of stupendously long run-on sentences, in one case seventy-four lines of single-spaced typewriting. At the time this passed for experimental prose. Erik Larson
Erik Larson quote: "I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and..."
I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. Erik Larson
. . . why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. Erik Larson
There began to appear before my romantic eyes...a vast and complicated network of espionage, terror, sadism and hate, from which no one, official or private, could escape. Erik Larson
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 or her own books. Erik Larson
Holmes was charming and gracious, but something about him made Belknap uneasy. He could not have defined it. Indeed, for the next several decades alienists and their successors would find themselves hard-pressed to describe with any precision what it was about men like Holmes that could cause them to seem warm and ingratiating but also telegraph the vague sense that some important element of humanness was missing. Erik Larson
I wear a pony coat with skin like watered silk and muff of lamb. My fingers lie in depths of warmth. I have a jacket of silver sequins and heavy bracelets of rich corals. I wear about my neck a triple thread-like chain of lapis lazulis and pearls. On my face is softness and content like a veil of golden moonlight. And I have never in all my lives been so lonely. Erik Larson
But one thing was quite clear...." [Sol Bloom, chief of the Midway] wrote. "[B]eing broke didn't disturb me in the least. I had started with nothing, and if I now found myself with nothing, I was at least even. Actually, I was much better than even: I had had a wonderful time. Erik Larson
Erik Larson quote: "Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written..."
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere. Erik Larson
Erik Larson quote: "I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me."
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. Erik Larson
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 taken root. This was Chicago, on the eve of the greatest fair in history. Erik Larson
Erik Larson quote: "I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book,..."
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so. Erik Larson
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 the country initially. I think diplomats around the world... felt like something like that simply would not be tolerated by the people of Germany. Erik Larson
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. Dodd. Erik Larson
Erik Larson quote: "Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world"
Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world Erik Larson

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