RCRobert Caro

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Robert Caro

Born 1935 AD; death year unknown

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1935 AD

There is a time to fish and a time to mend nets.

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02c. 1935 AD

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.

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03c. 1935 AD

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.

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04c. 1935 AD

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.

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