25 Robert Harris Quotes for You to Enjoy

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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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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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

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

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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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