“If you are afraid of wolves, keep out of the woods. - J. V. Stalin, 1936 ” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“ Quod volimus credimus libenter we always believe what we want to believe” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
It implies a slight failure as a writer that you are reduced to being a ghostwriter for the money. — Robert Harris Being Copy Share Image
“Death solves all problems - no man, no problem. - J. V. Stalin, 1918 ” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually.” — Robert Harris Civilization Copy Share Image
“But it is one of the tricks of the successful politician to be able to hold many things in mind at once… — Robert Harris Politician Copy Share Image
That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“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 Darkness Copy Share Image
“In the concealed darkness of the bag her fingers began to work her rosary, clumsily at first but with increasing dexterity -… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the… — Robert Harris Age Copy Share Image
“To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
You know, you can be really quite subversive in popular fiction, which is capable of taking on big issues of politics, war,… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables… — Robert Harris Genius Copy Share Image
“I guess you’re familiar with Moore’s Law? This states that the number of transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit—which… — Robert Harris Technology Copy Share Image
“I found, for example, that Cicero was fond of repeating certain phrases, and these I learned to reduce to a line, or… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought… — Robert Harris Absurd 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 Law of nature Copy Share Image
“Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. The rules had been… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Social mores change all the time. In the mid-1970s, it would've been astonishing, say, to see two men holding hands in the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She didn't say goodbye. She set off up the street, dodging the pedestrians, walking fast. He watched her, waiting to see if… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“What she needed was someone who would take her for the whole night. Someone decent and respectable, with an apartment of his… — Robert Harris Archangel 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
“Time. Now here is a peculiar commodity, boy. The measurement of time. Best accomplished, obviously, with a watch. But, lacking a watch,… — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
“The avenue was designed by Reichsminister Albert Speer and completed in 1957. It is one hundred and twenty-three meters wide and five-point-six… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
If you go back, 'The Great Gatsby' would be a portrait of the rich and fortune made by business. — Robert Harris Business 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
“Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.” — Robert Harris Flower Copy Share Image
I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters. — Robert Harris Heart Copy Share Image
Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name? — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Unlike the Holocaust, Stalin's murders are forgotten: dust blowing in the wind. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“There are occasions when losing is a victory, so long as there is a fight.” — Robert Harris Fight Copy Share Image
“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.” — Robert Harris Archangel Copy Share Image
