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• 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.

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  Party, Personality, Way

  "Robert Harris: 'I used to love politics. Not now'". Interview with Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2010.

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• The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.

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  Men, Purpose, Natural

  Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage

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• By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

  Robert Harris

  Dawn, Sides, Inertia

  Robert Harris (2011). “Enigma”, p.257, Random House

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• I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

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  Writing, Heart, Stories

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• If you spend too long trying to avoid death, you will be dead in at least one way.

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  Death, Long, Trying

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• The financial world is at the cutting edge of high technology.

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  Cutting, Technology, World

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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!

  Robert Harris

  Men, Wings, Soul

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound. Set down one sentence and it’s halfway to being just like every other bloody book that’s ever been written.

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  Book, Writing, Infinite

  Robert Harris (2010). “The Ghost Writer”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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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.

  Robert Harris

  Morning, Writing, Together

  "A little bit of politics". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2006.

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• That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.

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  Fighting, Opportunity, Men

  Robert Harris (2006). “Imperium: A Novel of Ancient Rome”, p.71, Simon and Schuster

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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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  People, House, Gold

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• In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling of the ball is necessary. It will seem to them that the game is not as good as it might be.

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  Golf, Games, Two

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• But only a fool sails into combat with nature

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  Fool, Combat, Sail

  Robert Harris (2003). “Pompeii”, Vintage

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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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  Regret, Able, Jokes

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• My literary career was a fluke. Utterly unexpected.

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  Careers, Flukes, Unexpected

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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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  Thinking, Leader, Scary

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• Orwell has always been a huge influence on me.

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  Influence, Huge

  "A life in writing: Robert Harris". Interview with Nicholas Wroe, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2011.

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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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  Growing Up, Kids, Missing

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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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  Thinking, Issues, Years

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• Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.

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  Men, Hands, Luxury

  Robert Harris (2008). “The Ghost”, p.418, Simon and Schuster

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• People perish. Books are immortal.

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  Book, People, Pompeii

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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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  Writing, Political, Interest

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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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  Girlfriend, Years, Sides

  Robert Harris (2008). “The Ghost”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• A police state is a country run by criminals

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  Running, Country, Police

  Robert Harris (1994). “Fatherland”, HarperPrism

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• Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

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  Suicide, Feelings, Guilty

  Robert Harris (2008). “The Ghost”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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