"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"

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Source : FaceBook post by Robert A. Caro from Jun 22, 2012

Robert Caro

#Book Quotes #Years Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.”
“By now, the morning sun was just over the horizon and it came at me like a sidearm pitch between the houses of my old neighborhood. I shielded my eyes. This being early October, there were already piles of leaves pushed against the curbâ€”more leaves than I remembered from my autumns hereâ€”andless open space in the sky. I think what you notice most when you havenâ€™t been home in a while is how much the trees have grown around your memories.”
“I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.”
“I completely remember the horror I felt when my pits started getting hairy. I would walk with my arms pressed against my sides.”
“When you work with words, words are your work.”

Source : "Fictional character: Luther Heggs". "The Ghost and Mr. Chicken", www.imdb.com. 1966.
“You can play Bach on the piano, a symphony orchestra or a quartet of saxophones, but let's stop this silly, childish business of knit your own musicology”
“There should be an international lunar base. That is certainly doable.”
“As a genre-bending blend of police procedural and science fiction, The Silk Code delivers on its promises.”

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