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You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

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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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By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
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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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A police state is a country run by criminals
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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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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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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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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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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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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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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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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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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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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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Storytelling has a narcotic power.
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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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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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If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
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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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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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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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