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Robert Harris quotes: People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii) People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
Robert Harris quotes: I have put out my books and now my house has a soul. I have put out my books and now my house has a soul.
Robert Harris quotes: He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet. He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.
Robert Harris quotes: Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere ... - Pg. 82 Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere ... - Pg. 82
Robert Harris quotes: But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once and to switch between them as the need But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once and to switch between them as the need arises;
Robert Harris quotes: Violence is Inevitable. Violence is Inevitable.
Robert Harris quotes: 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. 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.
Robert Harris quotes: Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price. Within reason, I can write what I like and spend as long doing it as is necessary. That is a luxury beyond price.
Robert Harris quotes: Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head. Writers of fiction should stick to writing, not pop up on panel shows or as a talking head.
Robert Harris quotes: Politics is a country idiot capable of concentrating on only one thing at a time. Politics is a country idiot capable of concentrating on only one thing at a time.
Robert Harris quotes: The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind. The line between accident and suicide isn't always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.
Robert Harris quotes: My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected. My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.
Robert Harris quotes: I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together. I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words together.
Robert Harris quotes: My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like. My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
Robert Harris quotes: And the great thing about money is that it doesn't matter when you harvest it. It's an all-year crop. And the great thing about money is that it doesn't matter when you harvest it. It's an all-year crop.
Robert Harris quotes: The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next. The most important thing in any endeavour is to get involved in the fight, and in that way learn what to do next.
Robert Harris quotes: From the Latin, con clavis: 'with a key'. From the Latin, con clavis: 'with a key'.
Robert Harris quotes: History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events. History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.
Robert Harris quotes: That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
Robert Harris quotes: It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done. It's when you've stopped writing and are doing other things, especially when you're asleep, that the real work is done.
Robert Harris quotes: What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them! What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
Robert Harris quotes: You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election. You can always spot a fool, for he is a man who will tell you he knows who is going to win an election.
Robert Harris quotes: You find out what you think by talking to yourself. You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
Robert Harris quotes: A crock of shit, Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity. This was a crock of nothing. A crock of shit, Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity. This was a crock of nothing.
Robert Harris quotes: But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all. But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
Robert Harris quotes: Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them. Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
Robert Harris quotes: Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day. Push out a bayonet. If it strikes fat, push deeper. If it strikes iron, pull back for another day.
Robert Harris quotes: A voice came out of the darkness. 'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself. A voice came out of the darkness.
'Don't make it so wide. It's not a grave. You're making work for yourself.
Robert Harris quotes: Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events. Politics is never a victory, it's just the remorseless grinding forward of events.
Robert Harris quotes: To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid. To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.
Robert Harris quotes: The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that.
Robert Harris quotes: Rising up starkly over the snowy plain, and that the plebs were flocking out Rising up starkly over the snowy plain, and that the plebs were flocking out
Robert Harris quotes: I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters. I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.
Robert Harris quotes: The art of life is to deal with one's problems as they arise; rather than destoy your spirit by worrying about them too far in advance. The art of life is to deal with one's problems as they arise; rather than destoy your spirit by worrying about them too far in advance.
Robert Harris quotes: You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past. You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.
Robert Harris quotes: If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936 If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936
Robert Harris quotes: Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
Robert Harris quotes: Eloquence which does not startle I don't consider eloquence. CICERO, LETTER TO BRUTUS, 48 B.C. Eloquence which does not startle I don't consider eloquence. CICERO, LETTER TO BRUTUS, 48 B.C.
Robert Harris quotes: 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. 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.
Robert Harris quotes: I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis. I lay aside the papers. Really, it is beyond hypocrisy; it is beyond even lying: it has become a psychosis.
Robert Harris quotes: History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too? History wasn't made without taking risks, that much he knew. So maybe sometimes you had to take risks to write it, too?
Robert Harris quotes: The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
Robert Harris quotes: Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.
Robert Harris quotes: Any man who is truly worthy must consider himself unworthy. Any man who is truly worthy must consider himself unworthy.
Robert Harris quotes: Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter. Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.
Robert Harris quotes: Well, well - be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive. Well, well - be careful of what questions you ask, for fear of what answers you may receive.
Robert Harris quotes: If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business.
Robert Harris quotes: Isn't an awareness of their transience what gives these moments their exquisite edge? Isn't an awareness of their transience what gives these moments their exquisite edge?
Robert Harris quotes: His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them. His scars and his tattoos were the medals of his lifetime. He was proud to wear them.
Robert Harris quotes: To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do. To tell a good story and to illuminate the world: the two things are completely linked. That is the point. That is what I've always wanted to do.
Robert Harris quotes: In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair. In a way I'm almost more rueful about the notion of having a non-ideological Labour party than I am about the personality of Tony Blair.
Robert Harris quotes: People perish. Books are immortal. People perish. Books are immortal.
Robert Harris quotes: [Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products. [Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products.
Robert Harris quotes: It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money.
Robert Harris quotes: Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty. Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.
Robert Harris quotes: Quod volimus credimus libenterwe always believe what we want to believe Quod volimus credimus libenter
we always believe what we want to believe
Robert Harris quotes: The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution. The kulaks were contagious. Their souls were contagious. They carried the spores of counter-revolution.
Robert Harris quotes: Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree. Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree.
Robert Harris quotes: Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?
Robert Harris quotes: Every time you fill an appointment, you make one man grateful and ten resentful. Every time you fill an appointment, you make one man grateful and ten resentful.
Robert Harris quotes: No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong. - Cardinal Vincent Benitez No one who follows their conscience ever does wrong. - Cardinal Vincent Benitez
Robert Harris quotes: What starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement What starts as gratitude quickly becomes dependency and ends as entitlement
Robert Harris quotes: more enemies, more honour. more enemies, more honour.
Robert Harris quotes: From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective. From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.
Robert Harris quotes: A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade - A comrade who deserts a comrade is a cowardly dog, and all such dogs should die a dog's death, comrade -
Robert Harris quotes: An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin. An excess of simplicity, after all, was just another form of ostentation, and pride in one's humility a sin.
Robert Harris quotes: You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature. You can't ever win the war on crime, or the war on terror. You can't repeal human nature.
Robert Harris quotes: Their souls were contagious ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them. Their souls were contagious ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
Robert Harris quotes: History is too important to be left to the historians. History is too important to be left to the historians.
Robert Harris quotes: This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly in view. This was the problem with drinks parties: getting stuck with a person you didn't want to talk to while someone you did was tantalisingly in view.
Robert Harris quotes: He tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her. He tried to visualise her apartment, but he couldn't do it, he didn't know enough about her.
Robert Harris quotes: Orwell has always been a huge influence on me. Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.
Robert Harris quotes: I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety.
Robert Harris quotes: This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal. This sort of talk always bores me: old men complaining that the world is going to the dogs. It's so banal.
Robert Harris quotes: It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ... It has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre ...
Robert Harris quotes: Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind. Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind.
Robert Harris quotes: What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason What is leadership, after all, but the blind choice of one route over another and the confident pretense that the decision was based on reason
Robert Harris quotes: In the end, the only safe place to put a Trojan horse is outside your walls. In the end, the only safe place to put a Trojan horse is outside your walls.
Robert Harris quotes: I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power. I was a political journalist; I came to writing novels through an interest in politics and power.
Robert Harris quotes: Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit. Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit.
Robert Harris quotes: the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind. the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.
Robert Harris quotes: The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology. The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.
Robert Harris quotes: Storytelling has a narcotic power. Storytelling has a narcotic power.
Robert Harris quotes: Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of; Bachelors of forty are society's stray cats. We are taken in by households and fed and made a fuss of;
Robert Harris quotes: Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence Often the most powerful men in a state can pass down a street unrecognized, while the most famous bask in feted impotence
Robert Harris quotes: Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease. Gratitude", he said, quoting Stalin, "is a dog's disease.
Robert Harris quotes: A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye. A dog looks up to you, a cat looks down on you, but a pig looks you straight in the eye.
Robert Harris quotes: We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest. We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.
Robert Harris quotes: 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. 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.
Robert Harris quotes: If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy. If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.
Robert Harris quotes: In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy? In fact fear is probably the strongest human emotion, period. Whoever woke at four in the morning because they were feeling happy?
Robert Harris quotes: On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten. On the Richter scale of bad ideas, this had to be a ten.
Robert Harris quotes: Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195 Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195
Robert Harris quotes: If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way. If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.
Robert Harris quotes: Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours. Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.
Robert Harris quotes: What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life. What fascinates people isn't policy- who cares about policy? What fascinates people is always people- the detail of another person's life.
Robert Harris quotes: We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature. We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.
Robert Harris quotes: A nothing that said everything. - Pg. 173 A nothing that said everything. - Pg. 173
Robert Harris quotes: By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question. By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.
Robert Harris quotes: The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always. The foundations of Empire are often occasions of woe; their dismemberment, always.

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