"Beneath the gore and smoke and loam, this book is about the evanescence of life, and why some men choose to fill their brief allotment of time engaging the impossible, others in the manufacture of sorrow. In the end it is a story of the ineluctable conflict between good and evil, daylight and darkness, the White City and the Black."

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

Erik Larson

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“When you have an acoustic bass in the ensemble it really changes the dynamic of the record because it kind of forces everybody to play with a greater degree of sensitivity and nuance because it just has a different kind of tone and spectrum than the electric bass.”
“Everything is falling into place.”
“All sensitive people agree that there is a peculiar emotion provoked by works of art.”

Source : Clive Bell (1958). “Art”, Perigee
“I have always differentiated between two types of friends; those who want proofs of friendship, and those who do not. One kind loves me for myself and the others for themselves.”
“There is no smooth road into the future: but we go round, or scramble over the obstacles.”
“The worst thing: to give yourself away in exchange for not enough love.”

Source : Joyce Carol Oates (1998). “The Collector of Hearts: New Tales of the Grotesque”, E P Dutton
“I saw you standing on a veranda you'd built with your own hands. And I loved you.”
“The river is now. This moment. This breath between us. The space between your heartbeats. The moment before you blink. The instant a thought flashes through your mind. It is everything that is around us. Life. Energy. Flowing, endlessly flowing, carrying you from then...to now...to tomorrow. Listen: you can hear the music of it. Of the passage of time.”

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