Top 100 Gregory David Roberts Quotes
#1. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
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#4. The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
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#5. Glory belongs to God, of course; that's what the word really means. And you can't serve God with a gun.
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#7. 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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#8. People haven't stopped believing in love. They haven't stopped wanting to be in love. They just don't believe in a happy ending anymore. They still believe in love, and falling in love, but they know now that ... they know that romances almost never end as well as they begin.
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#9. Some people always manage to make us feel sorry for them, no matter how stupid and angry we feel about it after.
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#11. It is always a fool's mistake, Didier once said to me, to be alone with someone you shouldn't have loved.
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#13. Ask people for help. You'll be all right. Don't worry. It's a great adventure, your life, and it has only just begun ...
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#14. I began to see how deep the well of her loving was, and how much her happiness and confidence depended on drawing that love into the light, and sharing it. And love was beautiful in her. It was a clear sky she gave us with those eyes, and a summer morning with her smile.
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#16. I let my eyes drift into the maze of leaves that only trees understand. Hatred has its gravitational web, locking stray specks of confusion into spirals of violence.
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#18. If the hour comes, and there's no-one to beg or blame but yourself, you learn that what we have in the end is just a handful more than what was born in us. That unique handful, what we add to what we are, is the only story of us that isn't told by someone else.
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#20. What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.
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#21. 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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#22. 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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#24. We are collections of things that we find and experience and value and keep inside ourselves, sometimes knowingly, sometimes unknowingly, and that collection of things is what we finally become.
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#25. He was the little mouse that I'd trained and fed with crumbs in my prison cell; the mouse that was crucified.
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#26. Nothing in any life, no matter how well or poorly lived, is wiser than failure or clearer than sorrow. And
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#27. When we act, even with the best of intentions, when we interfere with the world, we always risk a new disaster that mightn't be of our making, but that wouldn't occur without our action.
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#28. 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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#30. 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.
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#32. 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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#33. I surrendered to India, as I did every day, then, and as I still do, every day of my life, no matter where I am in the world.
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#35. Every city has a village in its heart. You will never understand the city, unless you first understand the village.
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#36. The truth is that, no matter what kind of game you find yourself in, no matter how good or bad the luck, you can change your life completely with a single thought or a single act of love
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#38. Every life, every love, every action and feeling and thought has its reason and significance: its beginning, and the part it plays in the end. Sometimes, we do see.
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#39. The worst things that people do to us always make us feel ashamed. The worst things that people do always strike at the part of us that wants to love the world. And a tiny part of the shame we feel, when we're violated, is shame at being human.
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#40. Personality and personal identity are in some ways like co-ordinates on the street map drawn by our intersecting relationships.
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#42. I know now that it's the sweet, sweating smell of hope, which is opposite of hate; and it's the sour, stifled smell of greed, which is the opposite of love.
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#43. And when you left, I didn't feel anything at all. Not a thing. I didn't want to be forgiven because of what I did. I wanted to be forgiven - and I still
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#45. The worst thing about corruption as a system of governance, Didier once said, is that it works so well.
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#46. So when will be the time to get on the train?
I think ... a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
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#47. And hope, that ancient seed, redeems the heart it feeds. The heartbeat of any conscious now is poised on the same choice that hope gives all of us, between shadows of the past, and the bright, blank page of any new day.
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#48. News tells you what people did. Gossip tells you how much they enjoyed it.' We
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#49. For all his wisdom, he did not know that love cannot be tested. Honesty can be tested and loyalty. But there is not test for love. Love goes on forever, once it begins, even if we come to hate the one we love. Love goes on forever because love is born in the part of us that does not die.
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#50. FORTY-SEVEN We found Diva in a shriek of Divas, in the lobby of the President hotel. The three of them stopped, staring at us with well-practised aghast. Didier was in a rumpled, white linen jacket and
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#51. Hatred always leaves a stain on the veil. But sometimes the hatred isn't your own. Sometimes you're chained, and the hatred beaten into you is another man's, grown in a different heart, and it takes longer than a fading bruise to forget.
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#53. That was one lesson he should've learned the first time. We don't, of course. It's okay, Karla once said, because if we all learned what we should learn, the first time round, we wouldn't need love at all.
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#54. I think wisdom is over-rated. Wisdom is just cleverness, with all the guts kicked out of it. I'd rather be clever than wise, any day. Most of the wise people I know give me a headache, but I never met a clever man or woman I didn't like.
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#56. The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
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#57. More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.
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#58. Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
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#60. This is not India. There are people here from every part of India, but Bombay isn't India. Bombay is an own-world, a world in itself. The real India is out there.
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#61. A business suit, Didier once said to me, is nothing but a military uniform, stripped of its honour. And
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#63. I'd developed a style in dealing with foreigners that won their trust quickly. That style was two parts showman, two parts flatterer, and one part philanderer, combined with a hint of mischief, a sniff of condescension, and a pinch of contempt.
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#64. Virtue is concerned with what we do, and honour is concerned with how we do it. You can fight a war in an honourable way - the Geneva Convention exists for that very reason - and you can enforce the peace without any honour at all. In its essence, honour is the art of being humble.
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#65. Be true to love where ever you find it, and be true to yourself and everything that you really are.
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#67. But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn't join it. I'm not a joiner. I never found a club or clan or idea that was more important to me than the men and women who believed in it. And
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#68. Good soldiers are defined by what they can endure, not by what they can inflict.
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#69. 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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#70. What is civilisation? Idriss once remarked. It's a woman, free to live as she wants.
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#74. Friendship is something that gets harder to understand, every damn year of my life.Friendship is like a kind of algebra test that nobody passes. In my worst moods, I think the best you can say is that a friend is anyone you don't despise.
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#76. I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal ... my first instinct was to write.
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#78. Love is the passionate search for a truth other than your own; and once you feel it, honestly and completely, love is forever..
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#80. The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving that.
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#82. And I'd learned, the hard way, that sometimes, even with the purest intentions, we make things worse when we do our best to make things better.
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#83. A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where men grappled with demons of desire, and monstrous injustice.
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#84. 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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#88. No happiness exists without its woe, no wealth without its cost, and no life without its full measure, sooner or later, of sorrowing and death.
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#89. The ghetto existed on a foundation of those anonymous, unthankable deeds; insignificant and almost trivial in themselves, but collectively essential to the survival of the slum.
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#90. Time is a membrane, a connective tissue, and it can be bruised. Time can't heal all wounds:Time is all wounds. Only love and forgiveness heal all wounds
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#93. I know how hard it is to find the line between helping someone out, and helping someone in. I know that all suffer and die inside, again and again, from the addiction of one. And I know that sometimes, if love doesn't harden itself, love doesn't survive at all.
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#95. We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone else's.
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#98. The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, you heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
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#99. It doesn't matter what you did, or what you were. It doesn't even matter what you are. It's what you try to be that counts.
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