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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.

Robert Harris

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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History

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One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They're too big, too fast. I think that's quite scary.
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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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A police state is a country run by criminals
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I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay there and put words together.
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For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
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People perish. Books are immortal.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
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I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
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My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.
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