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• Cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

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• A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.

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

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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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• Hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words.

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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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• If you make your heart into a weapon, you end up using it on yourself.

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• Every virtuous act is inspired by a dark secret.

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• There’s no such thing as forever.

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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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• Sometimes you have to lose to win.

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• Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child.

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• Powerful people have no regrets.

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• Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

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• Love is the opposite of power. That’s why we fear it so much.

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• Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.

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• Love is a one way street. Love, like respect isn’t something you get; it’s something you give.

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• The truth is a bully we all pretend to like.

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• Every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

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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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