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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
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Melbourne
Australia
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Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.
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If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose.
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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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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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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
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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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Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.
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The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
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It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
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The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.
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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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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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The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
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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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A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water
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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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Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
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The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
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every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
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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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