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Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

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Gregory David Roberts
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: June 21
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Melbourne
Australia
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Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.
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They claim a hidden corner of our hearts, all those moments that stay with us unscreamed. That's where loves, like elephants, drag themselves to die. It's the place where pride allows itself to cry.
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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.
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Happiness is a myth. It was invented to make us buy new things.
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The choice you make, between hating and forgiving, can become the story of your life.
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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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You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
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The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
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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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And money, if the pile gets high enough, is something like a big political party: it does as much harm as it does good, it puts too much power in too few hands, and the closer you come to it the dirtier you get.
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every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
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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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Sometimes, you have to surrender before you win.
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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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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
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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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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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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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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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Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.
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