Robert Caro Quotes

• I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Enjoy, Wanted

• I never went to a ballet until I was 45 years old. I don’t know why.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Old, Until

• 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

  Topics in Democracy, Power

  Tags in Political

• 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 to have a new experience.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Come, Pretty

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

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Effort

  Tags in Made, Become

• 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.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Everything

• Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Long, Through

• 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

  Topics in Trust

  Tags in Live, Lost

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

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Mystery, Ballet, Sort

• 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.

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Rest, Outside, Higher

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

  Robert Caro

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in New, Come, 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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