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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
New York
Robert Allan Caro
Robert A. Caro
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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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Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
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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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Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
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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 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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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 try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
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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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My interest is in power. How power works.
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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 Senate is an unknowing world
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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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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 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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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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The right of a minority is so important in a democracy.
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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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