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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
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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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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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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A police state is a country run by criminals
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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
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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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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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