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The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York

by Robert A. Caro

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Jan 01, 2026 04:02PM

“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Margaret Atwood , Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing

tags: authors, disappointment, epigrams, fandom, on-writing, similes, writers

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“Do you not then hear this horrible scream all around you that people usually call silence.”
― Werner Herzog

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