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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 50c7fe7 | Edith wrote later, "This was the accidental meeting which carried out the old adage of 'turn a corner and meet your fate." | Erik Larson | ||
| 130bd26 | In this time when writing long letters was everyday practice, men of normal sensibility saw these cards as the most crabbed of media, little better than telegrams, | Erik Larson | ||
| 7b06b8b | The company had a remarkable safety record: not a single passenger death from sinking, collision, ice, weather, fire, or any other circumstance where blame could be laid upon captain or company, | Erik Larson | ||
| 45d1a20 | In losing her he lost not merely his main source of companionship but also his primary adviser, whose observations he had found so useful in helping shape his own thinking. | Erik Larson | ||
| a41ca36 | As labor strife increased and the economy faltered, the general level of violence rose. | Erik Larson | ||
| 8ff13ce | 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 | ||
| a387c81 | Later, Dodd wrote a description of Hitler in his diary. "He is romantic-minded and half-informed about great historical events and men in Germany." He had a "semi-criminal" record. "He has definitely said on a number of occasions that a people survives by fighting and dies as a consequence of peaceful policies. His influence is and has been wholly belligerent." | Erik Larson | ||
| 8eb90e5 | 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 | ||
| f320320 | Hardly anyone thought that the threats against the Jews were meant seriously," wrote Carl Zuckmayer, a Jewish writer. "Even many Jews considered the savage anti-Semitic rantings of the Nazis merely a propaganda device, a line the Nazis would drop as soon as they won governmental power and were entrusted with public responsibilities." | Erik Larson | ||
| 41351a0 | It is," she wrote, "an unfortunate trait in the human character to assail or asperse others engaged in the performance of humanitarian acts." | Erik Larson | ||
| 1b5535f | ONE MORNING IN AUGUST 1886, as heat rose from the streets with the intensity of a child's fever, | Erik Larson | ||
| 5137921 | 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 | ||
| d7e00d7 | Klemperer detected a certain "hysteria of language" in the new flood of decrees, alarms, and intimidation--"This perpetual threatening with the death penalty!"--and in strange, inexplicable episodes of paranoid excess, like the recent nationwide search. In all this Klemperer saw a deliberate effort to generate a kind of daily suspense, "copied from American cinema and thrillers," that helped keep people in line. He also gauged it to be a ma.. | Erik Larson | ||
| 36c5801 | His quest to create a powerful first impression was good showmanship, but it also exposed the aesthetic despot residing within. | Erik Larson | ||
| 8938b45 | The fair alone consumed three times as much electricity as the entire city of Chicago. | Erik Larson | ||
| db9ef6c | However strange or macabre some of the following incidents may seem, this is not a work of fiction. | Erik Larson | ||
| 776de3e | He died angry," Chalmers said, "because I didn't believe him. Even in death he is emphatic and imperious." | Erik Larson | ||
| 95bf048 | Roosevelt understood that the political costs of any public condemnation of Nazi persecution or any obvious effort to ease the entry of Jews into America were likely to be immense, because American political discourse had framed the Jewish problem as an immigration problem. | Erik Larson | ||
| 69cbae9 | He had become the living representation of how men liked to think of themselves: one man doing an awful duty and doing it well, against the odds. | Erik Larson | ||
| ca0d32a | The story, too, tends to illustrate the end of the century. | Erik Larson | ||
| 7b52a38 | the Kodak being a new kind of portable camera that eliminated the need for lens and shutter adjustments. | Erik Larson | ||
| 3d45060 | He was a loner and intellectually intolerant. | Erik Larson | ||
| 728f081 | Anyone wishing to bring his own Kodak to the fair had to buy a permit for two dollars, | Erik Larson | ||
| 90115e9 | I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper. | Erik Larson | ||
| 9a25abf | TO DODD, PAPEN'S REMARK ranked as one of the most idiotic he had heard since his arrival in Berlin. And he had heard many. An odd kind of fanciful thinking seemed to have bedazzled Germany, to the highest levels of government. Earlier in the year, for example, Goring had claimed with utter sobriety that three hundred German Americans had been murdered in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia at the start of the past world war. Messersm.. | Erik Larson | ||
| 9b37bb8 | It could be done, because it had to be done | Erik Larson | ||
| 9e80447 | there existed a widespread, if naive, belief that war of the kind that had convulsed Europe in past centuries had become obsolete--that the economies of nations were so closely connected with one another that even if a war were to begin, it would end quickly. Capital | Erik Larson | ||
| ac7f1c2 | banquet of glimpses-- | Erik Larson | ||
| 4e6e3bc | These were men, wrote Lincoln Steffens, "who will not have an office unless it is up where the air is cool and fresh, the outlook broad and beautiful, and where there is silence in the heart of business." | Erik Larson | ||
| c0a87fa | 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 | ||
| fac4836 | He recognized that the systemic malaise that caused it was a consequence in part of his own refusal over the years to limit his courtship of the finest wines, foods, and cigars. | Erik Larson | ||
| 538eeea | These were complicated people moving through a complicated time, before the monsters declared their true nature | Erik Larson | ||
| 5ea923a | The war began with the geopolitical equivalent of a brush fire. | Erik Larson | ||
| 8e1450c | But within a week, the brush fire gusted into a firestorm, spiking fears, resurrecting animosities, triggering alliances and understandings, and setting long-laid plans in motion. | Erik Larson | ||
| 32bfc49 | ameliorate Jewish | Erik Larson | ||
| 161712b | most likely explanation is that there was indeed a plot, however imperfect, to endanger the Lusitania in order to involve the United States in the war. | Erik Larson | ||
| e933e1a | expected, well suited to Germany's guerrilla | Erik Larson | ||
| 10e8a2d | Such peaceful intervals never lasted long. | Erik Larson | ||
| a3347f3 | sybarite. | Erik Larson | ||
| 32e997e | My between-books strategy was reading voraciously and on a whim. | leisure writing | Erik Larson | |
| 3010870 | Hitler looked like a suburban hairdresser on his day off. | Erik Larson | ||
| c6b45a4 | He disliked the social obligations of the captaincy. | leadership | Erik Larson | |
| 9373f57 | The essence of war is violence and moderation in war is imbecility. -Admiral Jacky Fisher of the British Navy | Erik Larson | ||
| ac593f8 | I didn't believe all her stories," Martha wrote later. "I thought she was exaggerating and a bit hysterical." When Martha left her hotel she witnessed no violence, saw no one cowering in fear, felt no oppression." | Erik Larson |