Quote by Robert Caro
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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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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Beauty
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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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legal
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Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all thats written about the Senate, an unknowing world and its mores, and the way things work with subcommittees and all. I loved learning about that. – Robert Caro

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Learning
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Its not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions. – Norman Mailer

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History

Through all of history mankind has ingested psychedelic substances. Those substances exist to put you in touch with spirits beyond yourself, with the creator, with the creative impulse of the planet. – Ray Manzarek

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History

History studies not just facts and institutions, its real subject is the human spirit. – Fustel de Coulange, La Cité antique, 1864

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History

The Supreme Courts only armor is the cloak of public trust its sole ammunition, the collective hopes of our society. – Irving R. Kaufman

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History

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Grandma always made you feel she had been waiting to see just you all day and now the day was complete. – Marcy DeMaree

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Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. – Lee H. Hamilton

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