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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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Robert Caro
Age: 89
Born: 1935
Born: October 30
Historian
Journalist
Writer
New York City
New York
Robert Allan Caro
Robert A. Caro
Completely
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People
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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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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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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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My interest is in power. How power works.
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Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.
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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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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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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.
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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 deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
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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.
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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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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 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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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'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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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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Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work
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