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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
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Melbourne
Australia
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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
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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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nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn’t meant to be.
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The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
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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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The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
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Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
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Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
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You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.
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We carry oceans inside of us, in our blood and our sweat. And we are crying the oceans, in our tears.
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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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Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.
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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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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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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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Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.
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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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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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Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
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You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
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