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Robert Harris Quote: “March had a routine for reading the paper. He started at the back, with the truth. If Leipzig was said to have beaten Cologne four-nil at football, the chances were it was true: even the Party had yet to devise a means of rewriting the sports results. The sports news was a different matter. COUNTDOWN.”

101. “March had a routine for reading the paper. He started at the back, with the truth. If Leipzig was said to have beaten Cologne four-nil at football, the chances were it was true: even the Party had yet to devise a means of rewriting the sports results. The sports news was a different matter. COUNTDOWN.”

— Robert Harris

Robert Harris Quote: “Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?”

102. “Does a name stick because it suits a man or does the man, unconsciously, evolve into his name?”

— Robert Harris

Robert Harris Quote: “If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?”

103. “If long hitting is the thing that causes the spectators to whistle through their teeth in wonderment, why not play tournaments up and down an expansive stadium?”

— Robert Harris

Robert Harris Quote: “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 German radio traffic.”

104. “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 German radio traffic.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They’re too big, too fast. I think that’s quite scary.”

105. “One cannot see any world leader who has got a grip on the financial markets these days. They’re too big, too fast. I think that’s quite scary.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe – that was Goebbels’s great insight. They no longer had any need to bother themselves with inconvenient truths. He had given them an excuse not to think.”

106. “And people would believe it, thought Hartmann, because people believed what they wanted to believe – that was Goebbels’s great insight. They no longer had any need to bother themselves with inconvenient truths. He had given them an excuse not to think.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “Everybody tends to heighten his own reality. We start with a private fantasy about our lives and perhaps one day, for fun, we turn it into an anecdote. No harm is done. Over the years, the anecdote is repeated so regularly it becomes accepted as a fact. Quite soon, to contradict this fact would be embarrassing. In time, we probably come to believe it was true all along. And by these slow accretions of myth, like a coral reef, the historical record takes shape.”

107. “Everybody tends to heighten his own reality. We start with a private fantasy about our lives and perhaps one day, for fun, we turn it into an anecdote. No harm is done. Over the years, the anecdote is repeated so regularly it becomes accepted as a fact. Quite soon, to contradict this fact would be embarrassing. In time, we probably come to believe it was true all along. And by these slow accretions of myth, like a coral reef, the historical record takes shape.”

— Robert Harris

Robert Harris Quote: “History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.”

108. “History is what we bring to it, not just the events themselves, but how we interpret those events.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “History was a patchwork of voids. The great university libraries and public archives had mostly rotted away or been used as fuel in the Dark Age. An entire generation’s correspondence and memories had vanished into this mysterious entity the antiquarians called ‘The Cloud’.”

109. “History was a patchwork of voids. The great university libraries and public archives had mostly rotted away or been used as fuel in the Dark Age. An entire generation’s correspondence and memories had vanished into this mysterious entity the antiquarians called ‘The Cloud’.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? Cicero, Orator, 46 BC.”

110. “To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history? Cicero, Orator, 46 BC.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.”

111. “The old days of an inner circle of like-minded souls communicating with parchment and quill pens are gone. Sooner or later most things will be revealed.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “Suddenly his face twisted into a sneer. ‘Oh, I can see what you’re thinking, Hartmann. “What a vulgar fellow! A car salesman! And now he fancies himself as a second Bismarck!” But we have done something your kind never managed. We have made Germany great again.’ ‘Actually,’ said Hartmann mildly, ‘I was thinking you have egg on your chin.”

112. “Suddenly his face twisted into a sneer. ‘Oh, I can see what you’re thinking, Hartmann. “What a vulgar fellow! A car salesman! And now he fancies himself as a second Bismarck!” But we have done something your kind never managed. We have made Germany great again.’ ‘Actually,’ said Hartmann mildly, ‘I was thinking you have egg on your chin.”

— Robert Harris

Robert Harris Quote: “Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?”

113. “Since when has idiocy been a bar to advancement in politics?”

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Robert Harris Quote: “The line between accident and suicide isn’t always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.”

114. “The line between accident and suicide isn’t always clearly defined. You could kill yourself without really making up your mind.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “This is the trouble with internet research, in my experience. The proportion of what’s useful to what’s dross dwindles very quickly, and suddenly it’s like searching for something dropped down the back of a sofa and coming up with handfuls of old coins, buttons, fluff, and sucked sweets. What’s important is to ask the right question, and.”

115. “This is the trouble with internet research, in my experience. The proportion of what’s useful to what’s dross dwindles very quickly, and suddenly it’s like searching for something dropped down the back of a sofa and coming up with handfuls of old coins, buttons, fluff, and sucked sweets. What’s important is to ask the right question, and.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “It had been a futile gesture, of course, but then they were trapped in an era when futile gestures were all that were available.”

116. “It had been a futile gesture, of course, but then they were trapped in an era when futile gestures were all that were available.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “So,” said Ruth, “how bad is it?” “You haven’t read it?” “Not all of it.” “Well,” I said, politely, “it needs some work.” “How much?” The words “Hiroshima” and “nineteen forty-five” floated briefly into my mind. “It’s fixable,” I said, which I suppose it was: even Hiroshima was fixed eventually.”

117. “So,” said Ruth, “how bad is it?” “You haven’t read it?” “Not all of it.” “Well,” I said, politely, “it needs some work.” “How much?” The words “Hiroshima” and “nineteen forty-five” floated briefly into my mind. “It’s fixable,” I said, which I suppose it was: even Hiroshima was fixed eventually.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “I feel as if I have walked into a mirrored room and glimpsed myself from an unfamiliar angle for the first time. Is that really what I look like? Is that who I am?”

118. “I feel as if I have walked into a mirrored room and glimpsed myself from an unfamiliar angle for the first time. Is that really what I look like? Is that who I am?”

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Robert Harris Quote: “What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!”

119. “What a heap of ash most political careers amount to, when one really stops to consider them!”

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Robert Harris Quote: “The library was destroyed years back. My father-in-law used to say nothing burned so well on a cold winter’s night as a good book.”

120. “The library was destroyed years back. My father-in-law used to say nothing burned so well on a cold winter’s night as a good book.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “So I have a choice: either I am an investigator in that uniform, and try to do a little good; or I am something else without that uniform, and do no good at all.”

121. “So I have a choice: either I am an investigator in that uniform, and try to do a little good; or I am something else without that uniform, and do no good at all.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “As if earthquakes aren’t as much a part of living in Campania as hot springs and summer droughts!”

122. “As if earthquakes aren’t as much a part of living in Campania as hot springs and summer droughts!”

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Robert Harris Quote: “I did not have long to enjoy my freedom in tranquillity. My modest plans, like everyone else’s, were about to be mocked by the immensity of events. As Plautus has it: Whatever the mind may hope for The future is in the hands of the gods.”

123. “I did not have long to enjoy my freedom in tranquillity. My modest plans, like everyone else’s, were about to be mocked by the immensity of events. As Plautus has it: Whatever the mind may hope for The future is in the hands of the gods.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “Problems do not queue up outside a statesman’s door, waiting to be solved in an orderly fashion, chapter by chapter, as the books would have us believe; instead they crowd in en masse, demanding attention.”

124. “Problems do not queue up outside a statesman’s door, waiting to be solved in an orderly fashion, chapter by chapter, as the books would have us believe; instead they crowd in en masse, demanding attention.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “It was not quite seven and Berlin was alive with possibilities the day had yet to dull.”

125. “It was not quite seven and Berlin was alive with possibilities the day had yet to dull.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “It was like having a child forever at your heels – a persistent, intelligent, embarrassing, deceitful, dangerous child.”

126. “It was like having a child forever at your heels – a persistent, intelligent, embarrassing, deceitful, dangerous child.”

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Robert Harris Quote: “It was only later that he recognised the folly he had fallen into, a human trait he had long observed: that merely because one wishes to believe in a thing, it does not follow that it is true.”

127. “It was only later that he recognised the folly he had fallen into, a human trait he had long observed: that merely because one wishes to believe in a thing, it does not follow that it is true.”

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