At the ballet, you really feel like you'... by Robert Caro | We Heart Quotes

Writer Life Rest Pulitzer Prize historian

At the ballet, you really feel like you're in the presence of something outside the rest of your life. Higher than the rest of your life.

- Robert Caro

Other quotes by Robert Caro

Years

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

Ballet Faces

Sometimes during a ballet I'll look around and see all these rows of intent faces, concentrating on this beautiful thing up on the stage.

- Robert Caro

Power Years Being

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

Life

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

- Robert Caro

Experience Pretty

I like new ballets because they're totally new. As you get older, new experiences are harder and harder to come by, so it's pretty great to have a new experience.

- Robert Caro

My predictions are notably inaccurate.

- Robert Caro

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