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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.
Robert Caro
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Robert Caro
Age: 88
Born: 1935
Born: October 30
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New York City
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Robert Allan Caro
Robert A. Caro
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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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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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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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Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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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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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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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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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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I trained myself to be organized.
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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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The Senate is an unknowing world
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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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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work
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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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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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I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.
Robert Caro
