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If things are going well, if the writing's coming along, I jump out of bed happy. And if the previous day has been bad, I get out of bed disgruntled.
- Robert Caro
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#Coming
#Day
#Happy
#Jump
In a democracy, supposedly we hold power by what we do at the ballot box, so therefore the more we know about political power the better our choices should be and the better, in theory, our democracy should be.
- Robert Caro
#Better
#Box
#Democracy
#Political
#Power
I used to work very long hours. Then I started to realize that the stuff that I was writing in the late afternoons, I was generally throwing out. So I quit earlier than I used to.
- Robert Caro
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#Long
#Quit
#Realize
#Work
Someday a political genius will come along and make the Senate work.
- Robert Caro
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#Make
#Political
#Will
#Work
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 everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at.
- Robert Caro
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#Legal
#Long
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#Three
When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.
- Robert Caro
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#Enough
#Guy
#Power
#See
I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.
- Robert Caro
#Beauty
#Enjoy
#Life
#My Life
#Something
If it's coming near the end of a chapter and I'm really getting into it, I tend to get up earlier and earlier, just because I'm excited to get to work.
- Robert Caro
#Coming
#End
#Excited
#Just Because
#Work
Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority. In two years Lyndon Johnson is assistant leader of his party. In four years he is the leader of his party.
- Robert Caro
#Everyone
#Long
#Rise
#Through
#Two
I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.
- Robert Caro
#Great Man
#Great
#Life
#Man
#Power
I sometimes feel that if your book sells more than 20 years, then there's something in it that you can say, gee, I did something that endures, that's timeless.
- Robert Caro
#Book
#Feel
#More
#Say
#Sometimes
Long Island is shaped the way it is largely because of Robert Moses. Long Island is a perfect example of how political power shapes people's lives every day.
- Robert Caro
#Day
#Long
#Perfect
#Political
#Power
Robert Moses wasn't elected to anything. We're taught that in a democracy power comes from being elected. He had more power than anyone, and he held it for 48 years.
- Robert Caro
#Anything
#Democracy
#More
#Power
#Taught
The moment the curtain rose on that first ballet, I knew something wonderful and new had come into my life. I can still see the first scene. The ballet was Divertimento No. 15.
- Robert Caro
#Life
#Moment
#My Life
#New
#See
Lyndon Johnson, as majority leader of the United States Senate, he made the Senate work.
- Robert Caro
#He
#Leader
#Majority
#United
#Work
Whenever I go to work I wear a jacket and a tie, because I'm inherently quite lazy, and my books take so long to do, and my publishers don't bug me, so it's so easy to fool yourself into thinking you're working harder than you really are.
- Robert Caro
#Fool
#Long
#Me
#Thinking
#Work
My predictions are notably inaccurate.
- Robert Caro
#Inaccurate
#Predictions
I try to have a mood or a rhythm for a chapter.
- Robert Caro
#Chapter
#Mood
#Rhythm
#Try
I was trying to learn about Lyndon Johnson when he was young and creating his first political machine in the Texas hill country. I moved there for three years. You had to learn that world.
- Robert Caro
#Country
#Hill
#Political
#Three
#World
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
#American
#Live
#Lost
#Result
#Trust
I never wanted to do biography just to tell the life of a famous man. I always wanted to use the life of a man to examine political power, because democracy shapes our lives.
- Robert Caro
#Democracy
#Famous
#Life
#Man
#Power
We're taught Lord Acton's axiom: all power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. I believed that when I started these books, but I don't believe it's always true any more. Power doesn't always corrupt. Power can cleanse. What I believe is always true about power is that power always reveals.
- Robert Caro
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#Power Corrupts
#Power
#True
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