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There is no place suitable to my kind of mentality,
— Erik Larson
Dodd resigned himself to what he called the delicate work of watching and carefully doing nothing.
— Erik Larson
Riders on the Ferris Wheel got the clearest, most horrific view of what happened next.
— Erik Larson
gin daisy, which
— Erik Larson
As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats.
— Erik Larson
He signed the letter: George Washington Gale Ferris.
— Erik Larson
THE ADMIRALTY'S focus was elsewhere, on a different ship that it deemed far more valuable.
— Erik Larson
It could be done, because it had to be done
— Erik Larson
Her blind endorsement of Hitler's regime first faded to a kind of sympathetic skepticism, but as summer approached,
— Erik Larson
Stand with your back to the wind," he said, "and the barometer will be lower on your left than on your right.
— Erik Larson
Expected, well suited to Germany's guerrilla
— Erik Larson
Would be no skipping and dancing. No heathen. The exposition was a dream city, but it was Burnham's dream. Everywhere
— Erik Larson
He died angry," Chalmers said, "because I didn't believe him. Even in death he is emphatic and imperious.
— Erik Larson
ONE MORNING IN AUGUST 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever,
— Erik Larson
This prolonging of a man's life doesn't interest me when he's done his work and has done it pretty well.
— Erik Larson
New York's perennial attraction was shopping.
— Erik Larson
Ned watched her. She was young and pretty - a "handsome blonde," as he later described her.
— Erik Larson
The list of appetizers included stuffed eagles' eggs.
— Erik Larson
He knew not only WHAT to wear, but HOW to wear it.
— Erik Larson
The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again.
— Erik Larson
I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.
— Erik Larson
A battle followed, fought in true Gilded Age fashion with oblique snubs and poisonous courtesy.
— Erik Larson
Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne,
— Erik Larson
Man plans, God laughs.
— Erik Larson
One portion of the lakefront, named Burnham Park in his honor, contains Soldier Field and the Field Museum, which he designed.
— Erik Larson
In an analogy that would prove all too apt, Max Weber likened the city to a human being with his skin removed.
— Erik Larson
He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy.
— Erik Larson
had become friends and met often
— Erik Larson
Time lost can never be recovered ... and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
— Erik Larson
Murder was a fascination as always.
— Erik Larson
Oh, so many things swarmed in my thoughts," she wrote; "and yet each time I was with him I felt the charm of his presence.
— Erik Larson
The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility. -Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy — Erik Larson
It was like watching a dear friend go insane.
— Erik Larson
Such peaceful intervals never lasted long.
— Erik Larson
They looked more like day laborers than seamen.
— Erik Larson
I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.
— Erik Larson
There were always those passengers who came aboard bearing grudges against the modern age.
— Erik Larson
THE SUBMARINE as a weapon had come a long way by this time, certainly to the point where it killed its own crews only rarely.
— Erik Larson
Why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow.
— Erik Larson
She asked, what would he do if a lady happened to insist? Turner replied, Madam, do you think that would be a lady?
— Erik Larson
During World War I, Germany had only 25 of its vaunted submarines sailing at any one time.
— Erik Larson
I did an adaptation for a movie called 'The Devil in the White City' by Erik Larson for Warner Brothers. I love that book.
— Graham Moore
He slashed her throat in a Van Gogh stroke that nearly removed her head from her spine.
— Erik Larson
His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.
— Erik Larson
Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular.
— Erik Larson
They tasted a new snack called Cracker Jack and a new breakfast food called Shredded Wheat.
— Erik Larson
If no deliberate plan existed to put the Lusitania in danger, one is left with an unforgivable cock-up as an explanation.
— Erik Larson
As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose.
— Erik Larson
Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.
— Erik Larson
If you had to jump six or seven feet or certainly drown, it's surprising how far even older people will jump.
— Erik Larson
Look here, old fellow, do you realize this has been the greatest meeting of artists since the fifteenth century?
— Erik Larson
Cherbourg was leaving Liverpool, the ship
— Erik Larson
On February 16, 1943, at 6:00 p.m., she was executed by guillotine. Her last words: "And I have loved Germany so.
— Erik Larson
Back in America, true to her nature if not to Boris, Martha met and promptly fell in love with a new man,
— Erik Larson
I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.
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