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There's no such thing as forever.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
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Melbourne
Australia
Thing
Forever

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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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Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
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We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.
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Food is music to the body, music is food to the heart.
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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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The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.
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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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At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.
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justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.
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I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.
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but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
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It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\
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Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again.
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Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
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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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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
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Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.
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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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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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