# The Long Night

## Metadata
- Author: [[Steve Wick]]
- Full Title: The Long Night
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- Then Wood said something that Shirer remembered decades later, re-creating a conversation that sounds too pat to be true. “Listen. Bill. I think. . .at last. . .I’ve learned something. At least, about myself. Damn it. . .I think you’ve got to paint . . . like you have to write . . . what you know. And despite the years in Europe, here and in Munich and the other places, all I really know is home, Iowa. The farm at Anamosa. Milking cows. Cedar Rapids. The typical small town, alright. Everything commonplace. Your neighbors, the quiet streets, the clapboard homes, the drab clothes, the dried-up lives, the hypocritical talk, the silly boosters, the poverty of . . . damn it, culture . . . and all the rest. You know it as well as I. You grew up there, too.” ([Location 650](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004YD2UDO&location=650))
- Shirer could hardly come to any other conclusion but that the country was a sinkhole not worth a drop of foreign blood. ([Location 868](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004YD2UDO&location=868))
- The Depression had drained France of its economic vitality and its people of their savings and optimism. Among many groups that sprang up in the bitter atmosphere of economic fear, the financial collapse forged a deep-seated contempt for the government in power. ([Location 1311](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004YD2UDO&location=1311))
- “Those who today claim that the world should have recognized from the outset in 1933 that the Final Solution was in the offing are using historical hindsight, a tool that was obviously not available to contemporary observers,” historian Deborah E. Lipstadt has written. ([Location 1904](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B004YD2UDO&location=1904))