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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.
Gregory David Roberts
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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.
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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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