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“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood.
Daniel H. Burnham”
― The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
Daniel H. Burnham”
― The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America
“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.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“The intermittent depression that had shadowed him throughout his adult life was about to envelop him once again. ”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“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.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
“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.”
― The Devil in the White City
― The Devil in the White City
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