Erik Larson quote: "It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'."

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ERIK LARSON

The Lusitania is important, of course, because this is where Germany began its maritime campaign usi...
ERIK LARSON

In 1933, the Gestapo was founded to become - to be a secret police agency to keep tabs on political ...
ERIK LARSON

Whenever I finish a book, I start with a blank slate and never have ideas lined up.
ERIK LARSON

I've really tried to strip my writing of as many adjectives and adverbs as I possibly can.
ERIK LARSON

I went to public school on Long Island, and it seemed every year we were being taught that you had a...
ERIK LARSON

As a rule, I am very skeptical of tying books to anniversaries. I don't think readers care. I al...
ERIK LARSON

I have found from experience that it is often interesting and useful to start from the edges and wor...
ERIK LARSON

Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a boo...
ERIK LARSON

I was once again looking for a book idea, and I remembered Holmes, but I specifically remembered tha...
ERIK LARSON

Hitler was such an anomalous character - he was so over-the-top chaotic in his approach to statesman...
ERIK LARSON

It's like being involved in a detective story, looking for that thing that nobody else has found...
ERIK LARSON

The sinking of the Lusitania wasn't the proximal cause for the U.S. entering WWI. It was almost ...
ERIK LARSON

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ERIK LARSON

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ERIK LARSON

I'm often associated with parallel narratives or dual narratives. The 'Devil in the White Ci...
ERIK LARSON

If I'd been living in Berlin in 1933-34, could I possibly have foreseen the Holocaust and all th...
ERIK LARSON

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ERIK LARSON

When I'm considering an idea, and there is an element of hubris involved, I generally feel comfo...
ERIK LARSON

The head of the hurricane research division, Hugh Willoughby, told me that hurricanologists can pred...
ERIK LARSON

It troubled me that we had these reports of torture of detainees, we had people jailed at Guantanamo...
ERIK LARSON

Digression is my passion. I'm not kidding. I love telling the main stories, but in some ways, wh...
ERIK LARSON

I'd always been interested in maritime history, especially the great liners. I'd have done a...
ERIK LARSON

I don't listen to music when I write, but I do turn on appropriate music when I read portions of...
ERIK LARSON

My life! That's a long story, too. I was born in Brooklyn, New York, like half of the world, I t...
ERIK LARSON

I always thought a shipwreck was a well-organized affair, but I've learned the devil a lot in the la...
ERIK LARSON

I was a promiscuous reader. I loved Nancy Drew books and Tom Swift - never the Hardy Boys - but I al...
ERIK LARSON

What is clear is that in 1900, Galveston was growing fast, had already become the number one cotton ...
ERIK LARSON

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ERIK LARSON

It was a civilian ship, and the Lusitania could outrun any submarine. So this population of people w...
ERIK LARSON

I found a book facing out that I'd always meant to read: William Shirer's 'The Rise and ...
ERIK LARSON

My favorite zone is from 1890 -1915, that zone that spans the overlap of the so-called Gilded Age an...
ERIK LARSON

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

That's what I love about history - nuance. I don't believe in unalloyed heroes. Everyone'...
ERIK LARSON

In 1900, 45 steamship lines served Galveston. Twenty-six foreign governments had consulates there. T...
ERIK LARSON

I had a nice part at big newspapers, small newspapers, and then I went to a very big newspaper - ...
ERIK LARSON

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ERIK LARSON

It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I migh...
ERIK LARSON

You wish you had not come. If there were not so many around, you would reach out your arms, with the...
ERIK LARSON

Room 40 knew a U-boat was heading south to Liverpool - knew the boat's history; knew that it was...
ERIK LARSON

Captain William Thomas Turner, hero; villain, Schwieger. As I started doing research into him and in...
ERIK LARSON

I was never concretely aware of the extent of anti-Semitism in the United States and in the upper le...
ERIK LARSON

I'm always looking for a sign - not in a spooky, supernatural way, but in a 'neurotic writer...
ERIK LARSON

After I finish writing a chapter, I'll print it out, cut it up into paragraphs, and cut away any...
ERIK LARSON

One of the really amazing things about the Lusitania saga was that, at the time, there existed in th...
ERIK LARSON

I wouldn't say that I'm an Italian wine connoisseur. I do like red wine. I guess my favorite...
ERIK LARSON

But one thing was quite clear…” he wrote. “[B]eing broke didn’t disturb me in the least. I h...
ERIK LARSON

Maybe I'm imagining it, but I sense a deep seam of sorrow in Galveston for the way things have turne...
ERIK LARSON

Recovery had a lot to do with resolve and enthusiasm and the pace of rebuilding.
ERIK LARSON

Old No. 2.
ERIK LARSON

If you can imagine walking out your back door -- and where you ordinarily see somebody's yard, kids ...
ERIK LARSON

Now the city's most treasured landmarks are those that existed before the storm. The city has gone f...
ERIK LARSON

He embodied the hubris that so marked the last turn of the century when America believed it could do...
ERIK LARSON

The broader message is that technological hubris will always get you in trouble with nature.
ERIK LARSON

When I read that, ... I realized that maybe this guy was not quite the hero history has made him out...
ERIK LARSON

My job is to ... sort of guide them through the negative and positive energies in their life and era...
ERIK LARSON

There is a difference in what is focused upon, and the degree of disturbance that the person present...
ERIK LARSON

There is something about the name Berlin that evokes an image of men in hats and long coats standing...
ERIK LARSON

The telephone call that forever changed the lives of the Dodd family of Chicago came at noon on Thur...
ERIK LARSON

I've met many Holocaust survivors who find the era infinitely compelling because they have this ...
ERIK LARSON

The Lusitania is a monument to this optimism, to the hubris of the era. I love that, because where t...
ERIK LARSON

Unalloyed heroes and unalloyed villains make me suspicious.
ERIK LARSON

To me, nuclear weapons are the secret crisis of our time. Frankly, everyone needs to reread John Her...
ERIK LARSON

I started acting in second grade - my first role was in the Thanksgiving play. I was the Indian chas...
BRIE LARSON

Establishing goals is all right if you don't let them deprive you of interesting detours.
DOUG LARSON

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate.
DOUG LARSON

A pun is the lowest form of humor, unless you thought of it yourself.
DOUG LARSON

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.
DOUG LARSON

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing ...
DOUG LARSON

The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a...
GARY LARSON

My future plans are hazy, and I've yet to experience how much cartooning is in my blood and ther...
GARY LARSON

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.
GARY LARSON

Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
GARY LARSON

I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting...
GARY LARSON

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.
GARY LARSON

On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
GARY LARSON

I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a...
GARY LARSON

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
GARY LARSON

This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
GARY LARSON

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in...
GARY LARSON

I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.
GARY LARSON

A long time ago, I became aware that many of us have a tendency to lump nature into simplistic categ...
GARY LARSON

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folk...
GARY LARSON

I don't think we made any mistakes. But from a public relations perspective, it wasn't properly hand...
AL LARSON

I hear different things from different schools. It is kind of a mixture, but it is all anecdotal stu...
AL LARSON

Communication was tough, but we always sensed there was a feeling of appreciation. There was always ...
AL LARSON

We had a generator with us for lights. Even so, half the guys slept outside because it was cooler. T...
AL LARSON

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
DOUG LARSON

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your successes.
DOUG LARSON

To err is human; to admit it, superhuman.
DOUG LARSON

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
DOUG LARSON

If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there'd be a shortage of fishing pole...
DOUG LARSON

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.
DOUG LARSON

The reason people blame things on the previous generations is that there's only one other choice.
DOUG LARSON

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
JONATHAN LARSON

Accomplishing the impossible means only the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON

I can't control my destiny, I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's o...
JOHNATHAN LARSON

Anger always comes from frustrated expectations
ELLIOTT LARSON

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own. -Doug Lar...
DOUG LARSON

If the English language made any sense, a catastrophe would be an apostrophe with fur.
DOUG LARSON

The worst thing of all is standing by when folks are doing something wrong.
KIRBY LARSON

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
DOUG LARSON

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
DOUG LARSON

It seems the misfortune of one can plow a deeper furrow in the heart than the misfortune of millions...
KIRBY LARSON

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.
DOUG LARSON

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON

I started watching so many different types of women, saw all the complexities of them, all the ways ...
BRIE LARSON

I'm just interested in all of the different ways that a woman can be. We don't have enough, ...
BRIE LARSON

I'm really interested in mythology and folklore. I'm interested in moralities, why we're...
BRIE LARSON

We're looking to have the ability to come in and be able to capitalize on the marketing in order...
JOHN LARSON

Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
DOUG LARSON

There must be a happy medium somewhere between being totally informed and blissfully unaware.
DOUG LARSON

I didn't go to prom - I was homeschooled.
BRIE LARSON

Home computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of hom...
DOUG LARSON

A true friend is one who overlooks your failures and tolerates your success!
DOUG LARSON

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your children have teenagers of their own.
DOUG LARSON

I think it's always the moments that are the trials that end up making you become a hero in the ...
BRIE LARSON

A weed is a plant that has mastered every survival skill except for learning how to grow in rows.
DOUG LARSON

The same myths are told in every culture, and they might swap out details, but it's still the sa...
BRIE LARSON

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of ...
DOUG LARSON

Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
DOUG LARSON

For me, personally, it just made my career more meaningful, ... It never gets old. Any time, anywher...
ANDREW LARSON

Some people make the connection, some don't. It's not something I would ever make a big deal about,
ANDREW LARSON

Actually, that one is the most vivid, ... I don't know, maybe I blacked out in the national champion...
ANDREW LARSON

My first thought was that I had definitely hit it good, ... You're supposed to keep your head down, ...
ANDREW LARSON

Singing is an incredible expression and something that is important to me, but where I feel comforta...
BRIE LARSON

For some reason, chewing gum for me gets my brain going.
BRIE LARSON

For me, the dumbest rule is that you can't chew gum in school.
BRIE LARSON

I know it's odd. But when I was getting scuba certified, it was explained very early on that you...
BRIE LARSON

We look for a 'been there, done that' kind of horse. Old show horses or old roping horses are great ...
ANNE LARSON

Her whole ride was about that helmet that day. That day, that helmet was her whole goal.
ANNE LARSON

These are functions they don't normally do every day. We're using the horse as a tool to help stretc...
ANNE LARSON

Come on, Josie. Let's see you stretch.
ANNE LARSON

I've been watching for a long time the difference that horses make in able-bodied people's lives. I'...
ANNE LARSON

It appears to be highly subjective. This survey is giving more weight to words over action.
ART LARSON

We're going to examine this report and carry on a dialogue with this organization. But we feel that ...
ART LARSON

On some days, the plant has been operating at a full load. The steam you see is normal.
ART LARSON

Our target market for this project is Idaho and the Pacific Northwest.
ART LARSON

If and when we are, we intend to immediately seek dismissal of it as being improperly brought before...
ART LARSON

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in...
GARY LARSON

I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do th...
BRIE LARSON

Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon.
DOUG LARSON

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy ne...
GARY LARSON

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
DOUG LARSON

Laughter is the best way to get over something or get closer to something. It's one of the thing...
BRIE LARSON

I've become more comfortable as time has gone on with saying goodbye because... I've been ha...
BRIE LARSON

I think that I write about stuff that others don't write about. I don't have a bunch of love...
BRIE LARSON

They got the defense behind them. They know that.
BREE LARSON

We're working really hard on it every day constantly to get better and better.
BREE LARSON

Whenever something good happens in the game before, we'll bring it into the next game and carry it t...
BREE LARSON

We know that's going to be our key to winning games. Before, earlier in league play, we had trouble ...
BREE LARSON

I didn't have a regular school experience and wanted a more abstract way of learning. I started ...
BRIE LARSON

The belief is that after Katrina makes landfall, it will move north to the Tennessee Valley and then...
BOB LARSON

I do not want to hang around and root for Dallas to lose.
BOB LARSON

Our social life has definitely picked up.
BOB LARSON

It's difficult to meet new friends when you get older.
BOB LARSON

It's something totally unique that no baseball team has done before.
BOB LARSON

Basically, if it goes where it is now, it will have no impact on where you are (in Wisconsin).
BOB LARSON

Hopefully we are giving the message to people that this kind of conduct -- parties, serving alcohol ...
BOB LARSON

Hopefully we are giving a message to people that this kind of conduct, partys, serving alcohol to mi...
BOB LARSON

We're asking them to be ready, and as the situation develops we'll let them know,
BOB LARSON

I'm a very small producer today. They've treated me fairly; they haven't given me any special deals.
BOB LARSON

Because we put ourselves in a movie or on TV, then it must mean we want to be completely open to the...
BRIE LARSON

My first acting gig was a skit for Jay Leno on 'The Tonight Show.' It was this Barbie commer...
BRIE LARSON

I won't do things for money. I can't. So I'll hold out and say, in my mind, 'There&#...
BRIE LARSON

I love discussing social issues, but I'm not interested in scare tactics. I believe there is a w...
BRIE LARSON

Great moments in science: Einstein discovers that time is actually money.
GARY LARSON

For disappearing acts, it's hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after e...
DOUG LARSON

We are looking for targets that have a tremendous strategic fit for the company. The colleges must h...
JOHN LARSON

More marriages might survive if the partners realized that sometimes the better comes after the wors...
DOUG LARSON

Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, opulence is when you have three...
DOUG LARSON

Nostalgia is like a grammar lesson: You find the present tense and the past perfect
DOUG LARSON

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.
DOUG LARSON

There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.
KIRBY LARSON

It's the company, not the cooking, that makes a meal.
KIRBY LARSON

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar f...
KIRBY LARSON

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
DOUG LARSON

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
DOUG LARSON

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.
DOUG LARSON

If all the cars in the United States were placed end to end, it would probably be Labor Day Weekend.
DOUG LARSON

Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own.
DOUG LARSON

The opposite of war isnt peace its creation
JONATHAN LARSON

There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.
KIRBY LARSON

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things - they look solid in your mind...
KIRBY LARSON

The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule...
KIRBY LARSON

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
DOUG LARSON

I feel very much aware of my mortality. I'm here, and then I'm not. It's the same thing ...
BRIE LARSON

Everything is changing all the time, and I'm not going to stress out and spend my entire time ch...
BRIE LARSON

I'm really not interested in acting as a facade, I'm interested in it as an emotional expres...
BRIE LARSON

Some of the world's greatest feats were accomplished by people not smart enough to know they wer...
DOUG LARSON

I had a tough time fitting in, as I guess most kids do. I felt like school was kind of a grand oppor...
BRIE LARSON

I'm not really out in the world all that much. I mean, I live with no phone signal, in the hills...
BRIE LARSON

Humans have changed ecosystems more rapidly and extensively than in any comparable period of time in...
GARY LARSON

It took only 50 years for movies to go from silent to unspeakable.
DOUG LARSON

The hardest pill for me to swallow has been receiving recognition, getting dressed up, going to even...
BRIE LARSON

The trouble with learning from experience is that you never graduate
DOUG LARSON

My parents called me the WB frog. Because when I was onstage, I would do this whole song and dance, ...
BRIE LARSON

We want to make sure the launch and recovery are absolutely flawless.
JERRY LARSON

It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'.

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It's essentially taught in high school and college survey courses as an item on a timeline: 'The Lusitania was sunk; the U.S. gets into World War I'.

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