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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
Remain
Anything
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What is it? she asked. I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you? I'm afraid not, she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. There's too much of the devil in me for that. Just how much devil, I grinned, are we talking about here?
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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
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Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
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Love is a one-way street. Love, like respect isn't something you get it's something you give
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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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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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I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.
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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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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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In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
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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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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 best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
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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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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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The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
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Fate always gives you two choices, the one you should take, and the one you do.
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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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