Reading is such a personal thing to me. I'd much rather give someone a gift certificate to a … - Erik Larson

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Strange thing, when they arrested me for the pot, the federal agents, they said, "We're sorry, we really don't want to bust pot people but this is tied into a heroin operation and we have to arrest you. "

Erik Larson

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.

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Germans grew reluctant to stay in communal ski lodges, fearing they might talk in their sleep. They postponed surgeries because of the lip-loosening effects of anesthetic. Dreams reflected the ambient anxiety. One German dreamed that an SA man came to his home and opened the door to his oven, which then repeated every negative remark the household had made against the government.

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

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

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