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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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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Trust
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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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The main thing is to make history, not to write it. – Otto von Bismarck

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History

These fallen heroes represent the character of a nation who has a long history of patriotism and honor – and a nation who has fought many battles to keep our country free from threats of terror. – Michael N. Castle

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History

For most of our history, no one dared to tell Americans, you dont build that. – Rand Paul

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History

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. – George Santayana

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History

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Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. – Marcus Aurelius

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How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones. – Samuel Beckett

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God

The night before I left Las Vegas I walked out in the desert to look at the moon. There was a jeweled city on the horizon, spires rising in the night, but the jewels were diadems of electric and the spires were the neon of signs ten stories high. – Norman Mailer

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Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden. – Henning Mankell

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