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History is too important to be left to the historians.

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
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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 what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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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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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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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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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
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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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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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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
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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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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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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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My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
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A police state is a country run by criminals
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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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You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
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Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
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