There's nothing more interesting than the details of someone's life. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
The true currency of life is time, not money, and we've all got a limited stock of that. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Cicero smiled at us. 'The art of life is to deal with problems as they arise, rather than destory one's spirit by… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“How odd it is, thought March afterwards, to live your life in ignorance of the past, of your world, yourself. Yet how… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most noble in… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“any rash fool can be a hero if he sets no value on his life, or hasn't the wit to appreciate danger.… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“They weren’t such bad fellows, Hartmann thought. He had mixed with their type all his life: patriotic, conservative, clannish. For them, Hitler… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.” — Robert Harris Copy Share
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. — Robert Harris Copy Share
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“A crock of shit,” Rick had called it. But actually this was worse. Shit, to quote Gore Vidal, has its own integrity. This was… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“... unfortunately, freedom alone is not enough, by far. If there is a shortage of bread, a shortage of butter and fats, a shortage… — Robert Harris Copy Share
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to… — Robert Harris Copy Share
“No one can really claim to know politics properly until he has stayed up all night writing a speech for delivery the following day.… — Robert Harris Copy Share
Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? — Robert Harris Copy Share
“He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a fattening and… — Robert Harris Copy Share
The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate. — Robert Harris Copy Share
![“the struggle [for existence] almost invariably will be most severe between the individuals of the same species, for they frequent the same districts, require the same food, and are exposed to the same dangers. CHARLES DARWIN, On the Origin of Species (1859)” quote by Robert Harris](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4a0/robert-harris-2039_life_the-struggle-for-existence-almost-invari_2506732.png)
