Robert Caro Quotes

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.
• You can use a biography to examine political power, but only if you pick the right guy.
• The ballet embodies the notes of music. And sometimes you almost feel like you can see the notes dance up there on the stage.
• Herman Brown was a businessman who wanted value for money spent. His relationships with politicians were measured by that criterion.
• We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's…
• As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• I deliberately made an effort not to become an expert on the ballet.
• Ballet is sort of a mystery to me. And I don't want to unravel that mystery.
• I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a…
• 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…
• The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the…
• Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work
• You come in off the street, through the doors of the theater. You sit down. The lights go down and the curtain goes up. And…
• My predictions are notably inaccurate

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