“Surely the greatest mercy granted us by Providence is our ignorance of the future. Imagine if we knew the outcome of our… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
[Boxer is] the ultimate tool for the serious pro' that can't afford the time and patience to mess around with lesser products. — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a… — 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
I think it's very, very hard not to go slightly crazy if you're in the top in politics - especially if you're… — 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
If one tries to think about history, it seems to me - it's like looking at a range of mountains. And the… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“We never just sit around in the semi-dark and think. Modern information sources leave no time to think.” — 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 Copy Share Image
Humans have changed little over time. We think we've invented the modern world but they were making better speeches 2,000 years ago… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
My father left school at 14, my mother at 13. My father was clever and well-read. He took a newspaper, always watched… — 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
“Kelso's hangover had gone, to be replaced by that familiar phase of post-alcoholic euphoria - always in the past, his most productive… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
One gains a double benefit in writing about the past, conjuring up how things might have been, and at the same time… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“It was an unnatural time to be awake, ... It meant nothing good. He associated it with emergency, bereavement, conspiracy, flight; the… — 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 Image
“He felt more human with his boots on. A man can face the world with something on his feet.” — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road. — Robert Harris 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 is nothing… — 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, gait, even… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“... 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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