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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.
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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I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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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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