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I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless
Robert Caro
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Robert Caro
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: October 30
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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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To my mind, the prose in a non-fiction work that's going to endure has to be of the same quality as the prose in a work of fiction that endures.
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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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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
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Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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My predictions are notably inaccurate
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I trained myself to be organized.
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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.
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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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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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The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
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You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to good writing.
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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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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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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work
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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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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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My interest is in power. How power works.
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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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