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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
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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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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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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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The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
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And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.
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Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.
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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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nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
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The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
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So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
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They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.
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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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Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
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Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.
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I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.
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The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
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A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.
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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
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