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Robert Harris
British Novelist
Born: Mar 7, 1957
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The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. Robert Harris
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If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the first time you see them, they look one way. But then time changes, the pattern of light shifts. Maybe you've moved slightly, your perspective has changed. The mountains are the same, but they look very different. Robert Harris
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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. Robert Harris
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I am sure future historians will say the biggest and most astonishing change in politics has been the embracing of all the tenets of Thatcherism by the party of Keir Hardie: trade union legislation, Europe, the replacement of Trident, 10 per cent tax for people who have made millions from their companies. Robert Harris
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You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war, the rise and fall of commercial dynasties. Robert Harris
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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. Robert Harris
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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? Robert Harris
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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
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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. Robert Harris
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One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time acquiring a different perspective on the present. Robert Harris
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I think that whenever a nation feels itself to be at is zenith, it starts to feel a creeping sense of anxiety. Robert Harris
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Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the streets. And the attitude to having a fling with a girl, or whatever, was quite different then. Robert Harris
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I used to love politics. I can't say I do any more. All the fun has gone out of it. Each side is engaged in this trench warfare of managerialism. They're all too scared to say anything that might make them appear something other than completely bland. Robert Harris
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Everyone thinks politics will just go on the way it is. I don't agree. Robert Harris
Politics Will Everyone Way Go Just Agree Thinks
I can't get very excited about the House of Commons these days because I don't feel the power is there. What is really bizarre is that you sense it is not in Washington either. It is now very hard even to locate the levers of power, let alone to pull them and change things. Robert Harris
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There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life. Robert Harris
Life Nothing Details Someone More Than Interesting
I like to take people you wouldn't really think people would write novels about: an aqueduct engineer, a code-breaker, a hedge-fund manager. It's in those sorts of lives that I find more fascination than in a CIA operative or a Marine or something like that. Robert 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. Robert Harris
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Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. Robert Harris
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Storytelling has a narcotic power. Robert Harris
Power Narcotic Storytelling
Leaders today are isolated by phalanxes of body guards. It's profoundly undemocratic, the way they have used terrorism as a means to protect themselves. Robert Harris
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Having the urge to write a novel, especially if you've yet to be published, is like having a medical condition impossible to mention in polite company - it's a relief simply to know there are fellow-sufferers out there. Robert Harris
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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
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Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. Robert Harris
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You find out what you think by talking to yourself. Robert Harris
You Yourself Think Out Find Talking
My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected. Robert Harris
Fluke Unexpected Literary Utterly Career
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