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Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
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when you judge the power that is in a person, you must judge their capacities as both friend and as enemy.
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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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Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.
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More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
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I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.
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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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