“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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Category: history
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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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Category: beauty
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“In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.”
— Robert Caro
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Category: power
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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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Category: famous
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“Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with Vietnam, when he lost the trust of the American people in the presidency.”
— Robert Caro
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Category: trust
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“The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.”
— Robert Caro
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Category: music
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“I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.”
— Robert Caro
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Category: beauty
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