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I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I bel

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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There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson – real lows. And its never come back. Its a trend that, if youre liberal, is really discouraging. – Robert Caro

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Trust
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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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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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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background. – Thomas Carlyle

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History

Whosoever, in writing a modern history, shall follow truth too near the heels, it may haply strike out his teeth. – Walter Raleigh, History of the World

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History

Im not one of those who wants to purge our society of our Christian history. – Richard Dawkins

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History

I think documentaries are the greatest way to educate an entire generation that doesnt often look back to learn anything about the history that provided a safe haven for so many of us today. – Steven Spielberg

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History

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I think beauty comes from within, and society paints a ridiculous picture. – Rachel Bilson

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Every corny thing thats said about living with nature – being in harmony with the earth, feeling the cycle of the seasons – happens to be true. – Susan Orlean

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Nature

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Women

A plague on eminence! I hardly dare cross the street anymore without a convoy, and I am stared at wherever I go like an idiot member of a royal family or an animal in a zoo and zoo animals have been known to die from stares. – Igor Stravinsky

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Family