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Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.
Gregory David Roberts
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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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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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Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
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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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Luck is what happens to you when fate gets tired of waiting
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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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Powerful people have no regrets.
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I look back, now, and I know that the naming moment, which seemed so insignificant then, which seemed to demand no more than an arbitrary and superstitious yes or no, was in fact a pivotal moment in my life.
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The most precious gift you can bring to your lover is your suffering.
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Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.
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There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
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Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
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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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For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.
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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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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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Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.
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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
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