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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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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
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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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I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.
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The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
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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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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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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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Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun.
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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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There's no such thing as forever.
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