Robert Caro Quotes

• 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 you’re in another world.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Come, Down, Through

• The Senate is an unknowing world.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Senate

• 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

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in New, Same

• 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 first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in New, Come

• 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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  Tags in Music, Sometimes, Dance

• 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.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Beautiful, Look, Around

• 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.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Anything

• Nobody believes this, but I write very fast.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Write, Nobody, Fast

• My predictions are notably inaccurate.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Inaccurate, Notably

• Most Sundays, with the exception of football Sundays, I work, because I don’t take days off as long as I’m working on something that’s supposed to be all in the same mood.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Football, Long, Same

• Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Made, Leader, United

• Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people’s lives every day.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Day, Political

• It’s very easy to fool yourself that you’re working, you know, when you’re really not working very hard. I mean, I’m very lazy. So for me, I would always have an excuse, you know, to go – quit early, go to a museum, you know. So I do everything I can to make myself remember this is a job. I keep a schedule.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Myself, Fool, Yourself

• If you really want to show power in its larger aspects, you need to show the effects on the powerless, for good or ill – the human cost of public works. That’s what I try to do, show not only how power works but its effect on people.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Power

  Tags in Human, Need

• If things are going well, if the writing’s coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Day, Happy, Bad

• If it’s coming near the end of a chapter and I’m really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I’m excited to get to work.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in End, Getting, Coming

• I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Country

  Tags in Political, Trying

• I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Long, Writing, Used

• I think President Obama has done more than he is given credit for.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Done, President, Credit

• 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.

  Robert Caro

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  Tags in Book, Sometimes

Robert Caro (51)

Birth:	30th October, 1935
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Journalist

About

Robert Allan Caro is an American journalist and author known for his celebrated biographies of United States political figures Robert Moses and Lyndon B. Johnson.

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