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I wrote a million words in the first year, and I could never have done that outside of prison.

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Jeffrey Archer
Age: 84
Born: 1940
Born: April 15
Member Of The House Of Lords
Novelist
Playwright
Politician
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Jeffrey Howard Archer
Baron Archer of Weston-super-Mare
Jeffrey Howard Archer
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I learnt a lot about myself, I learnt a lot about other people and the problems they have. If I was lucky enough to live to a hundred, how I will feel about two per cent of my life being that way, I don't know.
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We all make mistakes but one has to move on.
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I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.
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But the thing I felt most strongly about, and put at the end of one of the prison diaries, was education.
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Actually, Sydney is my second favourite city on earth, I love Sydney, but this is the greatest.
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The popularity of an individual in life often only manifests itself in death.
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At the end of my trial, I was rather hoping the judge would send me to Australia for the rest of my life.
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Never be frightened by those you assume have more talent than you do, because in the end energy will prevail. My formula is: energy plus talent and you are a king energy and no talent and you are still a prince talent and no energy and you are a pauper.
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The worst moment of any campaign is waiting for the sun to rise on the morning of the battle
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With torture ,as with making love, foreplay is the all important factor
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I want to be your stranger across a crowded room.
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I think when you've lost an election by 179, there's going to be a period of time after eighteen years in government when you can't do anything right, and people just kick you for the sake of it, will never admit they voted Conservative.
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When a book comes out I wonder if one person will buy it. It's agony. Of course it's stupid, but it's agony.
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Well I think after leaving prison, and having written three diaries about life in prison, it became a sort of a new challenge to write another novel, to write a new novel.
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I put £150,000 into the stage production of Grease and have got back £1.5 million so far. It has been a fantastic success.
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Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.
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A strong man who has known power all his life may lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength.
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I'm passionate again about writing. This is important to me it's got to be the comeback book.
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Whenever you analyse anyone who has had any success and they're in the headlines, you will find they are human and make mistakes. I'm certainly that and I've made a lot of mistakes.
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