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Powerful people have no regrets.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
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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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The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
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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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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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Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
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Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.
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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.
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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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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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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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None of us lie or guard our secrets when we sing, and India is a nation of singers whose first love is the kind of song we turn to when crying just isn't enough.
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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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The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
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I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.
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When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.
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The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
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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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Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.
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