Robert Caro's Quote - I am trying to make clear through my writing something which I bel

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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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You know, my first three or four drafts, you can see, are on legal pads in long hand. And then I go to a typewriter, and I know everybodys switching to a computer. And Im sort of laughed at. – 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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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

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Men have need of history because, without it, the past threatens to overwhelm them. – Guy Fregault, La guerre de la conquÃªte

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If history, philosophy and so on vanish from academic life, what they leave in their wake may be a technical training facility or corporate research institute. But it will not be a university in the classical sense of the term, and it would be deceptive to call it one. – Terry Eagleton

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More and more, I tend to read history. I often find it more up to date than the daily newspapers. – Joe Murray, “History updates current events,” Spartanburg Herald-Journal, May 1

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You have to be there not for the fame and glory and recognition and being a page in a history book, but you have to be there because you believe your talent and ability can be applied effectively to operation of the spacecraft. – Alan Shepard

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