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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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Science Fiction Writer
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Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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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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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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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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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
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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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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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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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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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People perish. Books are immortal.
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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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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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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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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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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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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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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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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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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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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