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Storytelling has a narcotic power.

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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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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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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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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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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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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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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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A police state is a country run by criminals
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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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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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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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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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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of German radio traffic.
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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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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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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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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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