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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. (Gregory David Roberts)
More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India. View quote
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Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare. View quote
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A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it. View quote
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Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you. View quote
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Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes. View quote
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Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business. View quote
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The truth is a bully we all pretend to like. View quote
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Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving. View quote
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The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave. View quote
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Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much. (Gregory David Roberts)
At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone. View quote
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The real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it. - Karla. View quote
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The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling, and sewn with rebus threads. Most of the time, the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on. View quote
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It's isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts. View quote
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If we can't respect the way we earn it, money has no value. If we can't use it to make life better for our families and loved ones, money has no purpose. View quote
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The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards. View quote
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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black. View quote
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Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it. View quote
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Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work. View quote
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I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about. (Gregory David Roberts)
When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare. View quote
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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. View quote
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She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing. View quote
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I smoked in those days because, like everyone else in the world who smokes, I wanted to die at least as much as I wanted to live. – G. D. Roberts, Shantaram. View quote
Gregory David Roberts

Gregory David Roberts

Occupation: Australian Author
Born: June 21, 1952
Quotes count: 76

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