My greatest regret as a ...

My greatest regret as a writer is that I've never been able to include as many jokes as I'd like.
 Robert Harris

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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 Harris
It is perseverance, and not genius that takes a man to the top. Rome is full of unrecognized geniuses. Only perseverance enables you to move forward in the world.
 Robert Harris