Robert Caro
Quotations
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“There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And it’s never come back. It’s a trend that, if you’re liberal, is really discouraging.” -Robert Caro
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“You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybody’s switching to a computer. And I’m sort of laughed at.” -Robert Caro
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“Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that’s written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that.” -Robert Caro
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“I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I believe: that biography- history in general- can be literature in the deepest and highest sense of that term.” -Robert Caro
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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.” -Robert Caro
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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.” -Robert Caro
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