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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.

Robert Caro

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Robert Caro
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: October 30
Historian
Journalist
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New York City
New York
Robert Allan Caro
Robert A. Caro
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Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years
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At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.
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There's a feeling about it. You feel almost like a cabinetmaker, laying planks. There's a real feeling when you know you're getting it right. It's a physical feeling.
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I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives
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Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
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As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
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If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.
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Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
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I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
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You can lose a reader in a blink of an eye. If a person is an engineer or chemist or an anthropologist or whatever, you spoil the whole book for that person if there's obviously ignorance here. What's wrong with so much science fiction is that the science is so lousy that it isn't worth paying attention to.
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My predictions are notably inaccurate
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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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There's a theory, and I think the theory is right, that in order to make a change you've got to make the whole language of the page harmonious. Well, that's a lot easier with a computer.
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I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
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I've always felt that no one understands why some books of non-fiction endure and some don't, because there's not much understanding among many non-fiction writers that the narrative is terribly important.
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Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It's really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.
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Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
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I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
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The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
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The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and bringing it the same wonder and beauty that it brought previous generations
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