To say she was my girlfriend was absurd: no one the wrong side of thirty has a girlfriend… I suppose I ought to have realize it’s ominous that forty thousand years of human language had failed to produce a word for our relationship.
Robert HarrisTags: humor
People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)
Robert HarrisTags: books
Travel is sold as freedom, but we were about as free as lab rats. This is how they'll manage the next Holocaust, I thought, as I shuffled forward in my stockinged feet: they'll simply issue us with air tickets and we'll do whatever we're told
Robert HarrisAnd the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.
Robert HarrisTags: money
Where was the respect? The boys all looked like girls and the girls all looked like whores. Clearly, the country was already halfway in the shit.
Robert HarrisTo choose one's victims, to prepare one's plans minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed ... there is nothing sweeter in the world. - J. V. Stalin
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But clever people all make one mistake. They all think everyone else is stupid. And everyone isn't stupid. They just take a bit more time, that's all.
Robert HarrisTags: archangel robert-harris
From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.
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Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?
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Acceptance. That, he had learned in Russia many years ago, was the secret of survival. ... Accept it. Wait. Let the system exhaust itself. Protest will only raise your blood pressure.
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