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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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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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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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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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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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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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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in men's souls, and all that is most base? Or has such excitement? Or more vividly exposes our strengths and weaknesses? Boring? You might as well say that life itself is boring!
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You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
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To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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