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That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
Robert Harris
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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
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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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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
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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Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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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.
Robert Harris
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.
Robert Harris
History is too important to be left to the historians.
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I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
Robert Harris
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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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
Robert Harris
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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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
Robert Harris
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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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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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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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.
Robert Harris
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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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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