"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
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"I really wanted there to be something in my life that I enjoy just for the beauty of it.“
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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 everybody's switching to a computer. And I'm sort of laughed at."
-Robert Caro
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"There used to be this feeling under Eisenhower and Kennedy and Roosevelt and Truman that government was a solution. Trust in the presidency fell precipitously under Johnson - real lows. And it's never come back. It's a trend that, if you're liberal, is really discouraging."
-Robert Caro
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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."
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"Now, for this book I had to learn the world of the Senate, which is really for all that's 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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"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."
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-Marilyn Monroe
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"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."
-Oliver Platt
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"Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy."
-Anne Frank
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"I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them."
-Boris Pasternak
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"People are like stained - glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."
-Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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"I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains."
-Anne Frank
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