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Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
Robert Harris
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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
Suicide
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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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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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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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I was a political journalist I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
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Working 14 hours a day until you're 55 and missing your kids growing up is not what I would consider a recipe for happiness.
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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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Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
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History is too important to be left to the historians.
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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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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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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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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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To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
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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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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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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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A police state is a country run by criminals
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