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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
Immortal
Books
Book
People
Pompeii
Perish

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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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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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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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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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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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A police state is a country run by criminals
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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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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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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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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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
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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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I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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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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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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