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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.
Robert Caro
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Robert Caro
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: October 30
Historian
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New York City
New York
Robert Allan Caro
Robert A. Caro
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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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I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don't know why.
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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 interest is in power. How power works.
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Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
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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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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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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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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'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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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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My predictions are notably inaccurate
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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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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 try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
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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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