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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.

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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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Souls
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Bloodsuckers
Lenin
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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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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.
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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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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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People perish. Books are immortal.
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