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Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

Robert Caro

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Robert Caro
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: October 30
Historian
Journalist
Writer
New York City
New York
Robert Allan Caro
Robert A. Caro
Writing
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Nobody
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Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
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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 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
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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate 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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I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
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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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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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The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15
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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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My predictions are notably inaccurate
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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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The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
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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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My interest is in power. How power works.
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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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I trained myself to be organized.
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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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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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