Quotes by Robert Caro

Robert Caro

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

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Reason

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it’s harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Something New

Sometimes

Wonderful

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.

Ballet

Like You

Rest Of Your Life

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don’t want to unravel that mystery.

Ballet

Mystery

Want

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.

People

President

Vietnam

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.

Party

Two

Years

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It’s really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Ballet

Cities

New York

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

Political

Politician

Politics

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.

Believe

Trying

Writing

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

Ballet

Effort

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Quotes by Robert Caro

Robert Caro

Among the reasons that you go into journalism, I suppose, are some rather idealistic, even foolish reasons. In my case one of the reasons was I wanted to explain how things really work, how political power really works.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it’s harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

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.

Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don’t want to unravel that mystery.

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.

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.

Everything seems to be going faster and faster. It’s really harder to create something that endures. The New York City Ballet has succeeded in doing that.

Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.

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.

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

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