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Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
Gregory David Roberts
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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
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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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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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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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A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
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The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
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Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
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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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The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
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More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
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Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
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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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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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