"I see myself as the literary equivalent of……" — Robert Harris
"I see myself as the literary equivalent of a skilled lathe-operator, or a basket-weaver; a potter, maybe: I make mildly diverting objects that people want to buy."
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62 Quotes by Robert Harris
Robert Harris has 62 quotes on this site.
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In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling…
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Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting…
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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…
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A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound.…
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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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Politics? Boring? Politics is history on the wing! What other sphere of human activity calls forth all that is most…
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What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!
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Another of Cicero's maxims was that if you must do something unpopular, you might as well do it wholeheartedly, for…
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It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only…
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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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You find out what you think by talking to yourself.
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Egyptologists, skilled in piecing together the papyri of lost civilisations, suddenly discovered that the same talent could be applied to…
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More Basket Quotes
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Mr. Wrigley believed in this: Put all your eggs in one basket and watch the basket. They don't do that…
— Ernie Banks
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If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.
— Tony Benn
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The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams,…
— John Berger
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
— Kate Bosworth
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I mean if you put all of your eggs in one basket, boy, and that thing blows up you've got…
— Jerry Bruckheimer
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Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches…
— Andrew Carnegie
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The way to become rich is to put all your eggs in one basket and then watch that basket.
— Andrew Carnegie
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Every one is fond of comparing himself to something great and grandiose, as Louis XIV likened himself to the sun,…
— Francois Magendie
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If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit, which may be…
— Dwight L. Moody
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As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention,…
— William Shakespeare
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Women are like dogs really. They love like dogs, a little insistently. And they like to fetch and carry and…
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
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On how to make the game more exciting - Eliminate the referees, raise the basket four feet, double the size…
— Al McGuire
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