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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.

Robert Harris

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Writer
Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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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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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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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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[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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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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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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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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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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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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A police state is a country run by criminals
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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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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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History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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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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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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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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