Robert Harris

Quotes

• “Of all human activities, writing is the one for which it is easiest to find excuses not to begin – the desk’s too big, t...”
• “Jericho lowered himself carefully to his knees. He covered his eyes and moved his lips like all the others, but he had n...”
• “Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, beari...”
• “A book unwritten is a delightful universe of infinite possibilities. Set down one word, however, and it immediately beco...”
• “Down in the cellar the Gestapo were licensed to practice was the Ministry of Justice called ‘heightened interrogation’. ...”
• “Outwardly, I hope, I wear my usual mask of detachment, even irony, for there has never been a situation,however dire, ev...”
• “The destination of the journey could not be altered, only the manner in which one approached it - whether one chose to w...”
• “Brave words. Easy to write when one was young and death was still skulking over a distant hill somewhere... - Pg. 82”
• “Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195”
• “Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.”
• “People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)”
• “For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.”
• “Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.”
• “People perish. Books are immortal.”