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The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us.
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.
Quotes By Robert Caro
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There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and...
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Every president has to live with the result of what Lyndon Johnson did with...
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You know my first three or four drafts you can see are on legal pads in...
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Now for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate which is really...
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I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I...
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The New York City Ballet is obviously speaking to a whole new generation and...
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I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the...
Quotes About History
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If I had been elected president in 1948 history would be vastly different. I...
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For most of our history Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from...
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There is nothing glorious about what our ancestors call history. It is simply...
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This is a good time to ask apologists for the Islamic regime who degrades...
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What would be the nicest thing I could say about Newt Gingrich? He may be one...
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History offers no evidence for the proposition that the assignment of women...
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In the history of America we've never had an energy plan. We don't even...
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For all history up to the end of the Cold War summit meetings were historic...
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The issue of civil rights was too much for the establishment to handle. One...
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Nixon's full term was one of the most successful in U.S. history which is...