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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.

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Robert Harris
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: March 7
Journalist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
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Kidderminster
Worcestershire
Robert Dennis Harris
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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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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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A police state is a country run by criminals
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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
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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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[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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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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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.
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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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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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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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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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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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People perish. Books are immortal.
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Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago and grappling with issues of empire and terrorism.
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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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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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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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