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Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
Music
Heart
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But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
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The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
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The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
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A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
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If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
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Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
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One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?
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People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.
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Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
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Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
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Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
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One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.
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Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.
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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
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Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
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I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.
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Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
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Fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we’ve loved them, left them, or fought them.
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The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
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