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• Anything that can be put in a nutshell, should remain there.

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• Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

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• Silences can wound as surely as the twisting lash.

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• Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

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• The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.

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• The end mirrors the beginning. In the end, its about a woman & a city.

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• When the heart has its moment of truth & sorrow, the soul can’t be stilled.

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• The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

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• They make a religion of being greedy.

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• There is an element of control we have over suffering.

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• It’s isn’t a secret, unless keeping it hurts.

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• Despotism despises nothing so much as righteousness in its victims.

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• It was a beauty that sours if it isn’t nourished by some goodness within.

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• The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.

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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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• It doesn’t always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

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• We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

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• People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that’s why we fear it so much.

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• There’s no such thing as forever.

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• Powerful people have no regrets.

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Gregory David Roberts (52)

Birth:	1952
Nationality:	Australian
Profession:	Novelist, Screenwriter

About

Gregory David Roberts was born in Melbourne, Australia. He is an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He has written other books include: Crime and Refuge(with Hanne Nabintu Herland), and The Mountain Shadow(novel). He also written the original screenplay for the movie adaptation of Shantaram.

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