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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

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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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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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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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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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A police state is a country run by criminals
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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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? 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't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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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 be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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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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