Robert Harris Quotes

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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.…
• Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting appeal. The spirit of the…
• I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and put words…
• 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…
• The natural impulse of men is to follow and whoever has the strongest sense of purpose will always dominate.
• 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…
• What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
• Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for in politics there is no…
• It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move…
• That young man seeks opportunities to test his principles as readily as a drunk picks fights in a bar.
• You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
• Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to working out the pattern of…
• Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?
• It is perfectly legitimate to write novels which are essentially prose poems, but in the end, I think, a novel is like a car, and…
• If one first gives himself to the Lord, all other giving is easy.
• Their souls were contagious. ... Bloodsuckers, spiders and vampires: that was what Lenin called them.
• Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.
• First comes an idea. Then, characters begin to evolve out of the landscape of that idea. And then, finally, characters dominate: plot is simply a…
• Cicero most reminds me of Harold Wilson. Both men knew how to keep the show on the road.
• Don't try to write too much in a single session. One thousand words a day is quite enough. Stop after about four or five hours.

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