Erik Larson Quotes

• His weakness was his belief that evil had boundaries.

  Erik Larson

  Evil, Weakness, Belief

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• El tiempo perdido nunca se recupera... y esto debería escribirse en letras de fuego por todas partes.

  Erik Larson

  Letters, Lost, Should

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• Nací con el diablo dentro de mí', escribió [Holmes]. No pude evitar el hecho de ser un asesino, igual que el poeta no puede evitar la inspiración para cantar.

  Erik Larson

  Inspiration, Serial Killer, Devil

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• I thought I'd go to a bookstore and see what moved me.

  Erik Larson

  Bookstores, Moved

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• 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.

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  Taken, Dark, Roots

  "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, 2003.

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• Chicago has disappointed her enemies and astonished the world

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  Enemy, Chicago, World

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.348, Random House

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• Beneath the stars the lake lay dark and sombre," Stead wrote, "but on its shores gleamed and glowed in golden radiance the ivory city, beautiful as a poet's dream, silent as a city of the dead.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Stars

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• Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.

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  Ojo, Hombre, Azul

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• . . por qué algunos hombres eligen llenar su breve asignación de tiempo dedicándose a lo imposible, otros en la fabricación del dolor.

  Erik Larson

  Men, Sorrow, Impossible

  "The Devil In The White City". Book by Erik Larson, Seprember 30, 2010.

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• Debo confesar un secreto vergonzoso: Chicago me gusta más cuando hace frío.

  Erik Larson

  Secret, Chicago, Cold

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

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• Leaves hung in the stillness like hands of the newly dead.

  Erik Larson

  Hands, Hung, Stillness

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.386, Random House

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• To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom floor, and just get down on my hands and knees and start looking at it in that physical space. "Does this really follow from this? Should this be here or elsewhere?" I will literally cut the paper into paragraphs. I'll cut it into segments and move the segments around from one narrative to the other until I feel that I've found the natural structure.

  Erik Larson

  Mudanza, Libro, Escritura

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• Bajo la sangre, el humo y el fango, este libro trata de la evanescencia de la vida, y de por qué algunos hombres eligen llenar su breve asignación de tiempo dedicándose a lo imposible, otros a la fabricación del dolor. Al final, es una historia del conflicto ineluctable entre el bien y el mal, la luz del día y la oscuridad, la Ciudad Blanca y la Negra.

  Erik Larson

  Book, Men, Cities

  "The Devil in the White City". Book by Erik Larson, February 11, 2003.

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• I'm very perverse. If someone tells me I have to read a book, I'm instantly disinclined to do so.

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  Libro, Si

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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 sense of place. I fell in love with the city, the people I encountered, and above all the lake and its moods, which shift so readily from season to season, day to day, even hour to hour.

  Erik Larson

  Cities, Lakes, People

  Erik Larson (2010). “The Devil In The White City”, p.482, Random House

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• 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

  Libro, Lectura, Dar

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• 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.

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  Country, Character, Thinking

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• I pride myself on having a journalistic remove.

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  Pride, Remove, Journalistic

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• Siempre que termino un libro, empiezo con una pizarra en blanco y nunca tengo ideas alineadas.

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  Book, Ideas, Blank

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• Digression is my passion. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, what I love most is using those narratives as a way of stringing together the interesting stories that people have kind of forgotten, and that are kind of surprising. The problem is, how do you pare stories away so that the book doesn't become a distracting jumble of material, and readers lose focus? In my experience, there's really only one way to do that. I pack it all in with the rough draft, then count on myself and my trusted readers to tell me what's good and what's not good.

  Erik Larson

  Book, Passion, People

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• 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.

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  Reading, Diaries, Bigs

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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 my manuscripts back to myself - kind of like adding a soundtrack to help shape mood.

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  Writing, Shapes, Helping

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

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  Adults, Intermittent

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• I like all kinds of music, though I tend to prefer jazz and classics.

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  Jazz, Kind, All Kinds

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

  Erik Larson

  Reading, Paris, Sublime

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