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It's a hindrance to be lonely and isolated in one's work. Ideas stimulate ideas, and the love of writing is contagious." Martha — Erik Larson

Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead. — Erik Larson

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

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As the light began to fade, the architects lit the library's gas jets, which hissed like mildly perturbed cats. — Erik Larson

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper levels of the State Department. — 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

Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham — Erik Larson

The president of the United States, Benjamin Harrison, attended its grand opening. — Erik Larson

As I look back on those days, most people in Chicago felt that way. Chicago was host to the world at that time and we were part of it all. — Erik Larson

Even the language used by Hitler and party officials was weirdly inverted. The term "fanatical" became a positive trait. Suddenly — Erik Larson

There are some things I must try to say before the still watches come again in which the things unsaid hurt so and cry out in the heart to be uttered. — Erik Larson

People seemed to believe that technology had stripped hurricanes of their power to kill. No hurricane expert endorsed this view. — Erik Larson

With the physique of a bank safe, he was the embodiment of quiet strength. — 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

Ferris, himself fed up with construction delays and Burnham's pestering, had told Gronau to turn the wheel or tear it off the tower. — 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

Perhaps, Herr Ditzen, it is less important where one lives than how one lives. — 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

(Britain had more than twice as many submarines as Germany but used them mainly for coastal defense, not to stop merchant ships.) — Erik Larson

He knew not only WHAT to wear, but HOW to wear it. — Erik Larson

I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics. — Erik Larson

So every night," he said, "I slept with a torpedo and a puppy. — 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

The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. — Erik Larson

As a reminder to himself and anyone who visited his office in the shanty, Burnham posted a sign over his desk bearing a single word: RUSH. — 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

The bureau had long banned the use of the word tornado because it induced panic, and panic brought criticism, something the bureau could ill afford. — Erik Larson

Beside his own person and his own interests, nothing is sacred to the psychopath. — Erik Larson

The world, he said, must face the sad fact that in an age when international cooperation should be the keyword, nations are farther apart than ever. — 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

The Lusitania remained a passenger liner, but with the hull of a battleship. — 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

Following my between-books strategy of reading voraciously and promiscuously. What — 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

My prophetic task would be twofold: to stand up to him, and to stand by him. To awaken his conscience, and to salve the pain this would cause him. — 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

It had swept him, he said, "into a dream from which I did not recover for months. — Erik Larson

Why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. — Erik Larson

Reading Mission to Paris is like sipping a fine Chateau Margaux: Sublime! — 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

To remain silent is out of the question for a strong and honest man. — Erik Larson

It's all right to drill your crew, but why not drill the passengers. — 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

Ferris had created more than simply an engineering novelty. Like the inventors of the elevator, he had conjured an entirely new physical sensation. — Erik Larson

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

Camille's rain fell with such ferocity it was said to have filled the overhead nostrils of birds and drowned them from the trees. — Erik Larson

No one cared what St. Louis thought, although the city got a wink for pluck. — Erik Larson

Messersmith, in a dispatch, observed that even smart, well-traveled Germans will "sit and calmly tell you the most extraordinary fairy tales. — Erik Larson

Hunt was the janissary of a dead vernacular. — Erik Larson

My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. — 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

I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. — Erik Larson

U-boats in fact traveled underwater as little as possible, typically only in extreme weather or when attacking ships or dodging destroyers. — Erik Larson

Among a list of measures effective for inducing vomiting, she included: Injections of tobacco into the anus through a pipe stem. — 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

If I told you, you wouldn't know what I was talking about. — Erik Larson

through the hull - the rush of water past a prow, the thrum of propellers. — Erik Larson

In Calumet a thousand ornate streetlamps stood in a swamp, where they did nothing but ignite the fog and summon auras of mosquitoes. — Erik Larson

Holmes was testing his power to bend the lives of people. — Erik Larson

Lost children filled every chair at the headquarters of the Columbian Guard; nineteen spent the night and were claimed by their parents the next day. — Erik Larson

There are no heroes here, at least not of the Schindler's List variety, but there are glimmers of heroism and people who behave with unexpected grace. — Erik Larson

I was inclined to think him Jewish," she wrote; she "considered his animus to be prompted only by his racial self-consciousness. — 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

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up. — Erik Larson

Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes. — Erik Larson

I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me. — Erik Larson

Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world — Erik Larson