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Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Novelist
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Melbourne
Australia
Silence
Men
Tortured
Revenge

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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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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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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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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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