"Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar, . . . for if a traveler doesn't visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it."

-- Paul Fussell

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“Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing.”
“To live on the land we must learn from the ocean, to be true as the tide and free as the wind swell.”
“I don't write about things that I have the answers to or things that are very close to home. It just wouldn't be any adventure. It wouldn't have any vitality.”
“If the system turns away from the abuses inflicted on the guilty, then who can be next but the innocents?”
“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.”

Source : "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power". Interview with Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 9, 2012.
“I'm fully aware that my vision of a European bicameral parliament can't be implemented tomorrow. I'm also not an integration fanatic.”
“Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.”
“I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.”

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