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I sometimes think that the size of our happiness is inversely proportional to the size of our house.

Gregory David Roberts

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
Author
Novelist
Prosaist
Writer
Melbourne
Australia
Inversely
Proportional
Size
Happiness
House
Sometimes
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Thinking

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