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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

Robert Harris

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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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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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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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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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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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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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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
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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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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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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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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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People perish. Books are immortal.
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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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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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