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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.
Robert Harris
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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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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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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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