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People perish. Books are immortal.

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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
Perish
Immortal
Books
Book
People
Pompeii

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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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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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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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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, the desk’s too small, there’s too much noise, there’s too much quiet, it’s too hot, too cold, too early, too late. I had learned over the years to ignore them all, and simply to start.
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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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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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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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I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
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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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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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For me, as I suspect for most people, there comes a point where you have enough. If you've got £20 million, why keep going until you've got £100 million or £1,000 million? Does anyone need another vast yacht or private jet or a house full of gold?
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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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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a function of what these people might do or be. Everything has to flow from their personalities otherwise it will not be emotionally engaging, or plausible.
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I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics, especially if you're there for a long time.
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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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