Gregory David Roberts Quotes

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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.

Gregory David Roberts
There is nothing so depressing as good advice, and I will be pleased if you do not inflict it upon me. Frankly, I am shocked at you. You must know this, surely? Some years ago I suffered such an offensively gratuitous piece of good advice that I was depressed for six months afterward. It was a very close call - I almost never recovered.

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The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

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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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One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

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We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

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Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

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

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I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have, and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

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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.

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Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you..

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Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.

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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.

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I know now that when the loving, honest moment comes it should be seized, and spoken, because it may never come again. And unvoiced, unmoving, unlived in the things we declare form heart to heart, those true and real feelings wither and crumble in the remembering hand that tries too late to reach for them.

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There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment.

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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.

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Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

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You know the difference between news and gossip, don't you? News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.

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The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.

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The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

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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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Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.

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Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey. Every time we turn the key we twist the knife of fate, because every time we cage a man we close him in with hate.

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Nothing in the world is so soft and pleasing to the touch, as the skin of a woman's thigh. No flower, feather or fabric, can match that velvet whisper of flesh. No matter how unequal they may be in any other ways, all women, old and young, fat and thin, beautiful and ugly, have that perfection. It's a great part of the reason why men hunger to possess women, and so often convince themselves that they do possess them: the thigh, that touch.

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Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.

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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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I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

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Slowly, desolately, the fist of what we'd done unclenched the clawed palm of what we'd become.

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Of course I wanted to know. I was a writer. I wanted to know everything.

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