"People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)" — Robert Harris

"People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)"

— Robert Harris

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62 Quotes by Robert Harris

Robert Harris has 62 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In a generation or two, or maybe sooner, young golfers of true sporting instinct will wonder why all this handling…
Golf requires only a few simple Rules and Regulations to guide the players in the true nature of its sporting…
I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in…
A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately becomes earthbound.…
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…
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…
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only…
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…

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More Book Quotes

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High thoughts must have high language. — Aristophanes
I was never really a comic-book fanatic. — J. J. Abrams
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you… — Julian Assange
Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to… — Paul Auster
I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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