Top 100 Gregory David Roberts Quotes
#2. Credit, security passes, and other documents. It was a booming trade in the booming economy of Bombay, and we often worked through the dawn to satisfy the demand. And the business was generational: as licensing authorities and other bodies
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#3. There is no objective and universally acceptable definition of good and evil. And until we have one, we will go on justifying our own actions, while condemning the actions of the others.
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#5. In the storm-lit darkness, the beaded sweat and raindrops on her arm were like so many glittering stars, and her skin was like a span of night sky.
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#6. 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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#7. 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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#11. 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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#12. 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.
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#15. 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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#17. 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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#18. He'd been able to deal with that pain because he'd accepted his own part in causing it
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#19. There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.
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#22. I looked in the mirror once more. The new clothes felt like salt on the raw wounds, but they covered the worst of it, and I looked less alarming, less confronting, less hideous. I smiled at the mirror. I was practising, trying to remember what it was like to be me.
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#23. 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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#24. Fate needs accomplices, and the stones in destiny's walls are mortared with small and heedless complicities such as those.
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#25. Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful.
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#26. 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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#27. Because justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied,
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#28. The past reflects eternally between two mirrors -the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
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#29. I hesitated. Karla once said that men reveal what they think when they look away, and what they feel when they hesitate. With women, she said, it's the other way around.
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#30. Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from, the more you wish they'd never happened.
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#31. I was thinking about another kind of river, one that runs through every one of us, no matter where we come from, all over the world. It's the river of the heart, and the heart's desire. It's the pure, essential truth of what each one of us is, and can achieve.
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#32. You are not a man until you give your love, truly and freely to a child. And you are not a good man until you earn the love, truly and freely, of a child in return.
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#34. He'd been trying to tell me that every human will has the power to transform its fate. I'd always
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#36. 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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#37. You marry them,' Blue Hijab said, 'hoping they'll change, and grow. And they marry us, hoping that we won't.
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#38. They're (kids) so... innocent. Except that they're not. They know exactly what they want, and they don't stop till they get it.
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#39. Like most things, and most people, it's not as bad as it looks from the outside.
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#40. Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion. Nothing exists, as we think it does. Not you. Not me. Not this room. Nothing.
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#42. Most of us pretend, with greater or lesser success, that the minute we live in is something we can share. But the past for every one of us is a desert island.
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#43. If you stare into its cold dead eye, the camera always mocks you with the truth.
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#45. 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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#46. A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn't really that bad until someone tried to change it.
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#47. 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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#48. Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
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#49. I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us, or our endless ability to endure it.
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#50. 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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#51. Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.
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#52. Optimism is the first cousin of love, and it's exactly like love in three ways: it's pushy, it has no real sense of humour, and it turns up where you least expect it.
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#54. I want everything,' she replied with a faint, wry smile. 'You know, I said that once to a friend of mine, and he told me that the real trick in life is to want nothing, and to succeed in getting it.
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#55. Is easy
suffering is hungry, isn't it? Hungry, for anything, means suffering. Not hungry for something, means, not suffering. But everybody knows that.
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#57. Jealousy, like the flawed love that bears it, has no respect for time or space or wisely reasoned argument.
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#61. There's too much love in the world. Sometimes I think that's what heaven is
a place where everybody's happy because nobody loves anybody else, ever.
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#62. The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
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#63. Every door is a portal leading through time as well as space. The same doorway that leads us into and out of a room also leads us into the past of the room and its ceaselessly unfolding future.
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#64. A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.
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#65. We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, don't you find?
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#66. Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black.
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#67. It's unreasonable and unjustified, of course, but it's always there, hiding in the long shadow thrown by envy.
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#68. We know who we are and we define what we are by references to the people we love and our reasons for loving them.
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#69. What is it?" she asked.
"I'm looking for your wings. You are my guardian angel, aren't you?"
"I'm afraid not," she replied, her cheeks dimplingwith a wry smile. "There's too much of the devil in me for that."
"Just how much devil," I grinned, "are we talking about here?
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#71. And my heart was as clean and hungry for promises as a monsoon morning in the gardens of Malabar.
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#72. 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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#73. But wisdom, in one sense, is the opposite of love. Love survives in is precisely because it isn't wise.
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#74. The more you try to be like someone else, the more you find yourself standing in the way.
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#75. Every act of suffering, no matter how small or agonisingly great, is a test of love in some way. Most of the time, suffering is also a test of our love for God.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. I looked at the people, then, and I saw how busy they were - how much industry and energy described their lives.
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#79. Everything you ever sense, in touch or taste or sight or even thought, has an effect on you that's greater than zero.
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#80. I don't like letters. Any dark past is a vampire, feeding on the blood of the living moment, and letters are the bats.
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#81. And while a small measure of bitterness might've protected me from time to time, as it sometimes does, I've learned that sweet memories don't walk through cynical doors.
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#82. That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know how to fight and lie and cheat each other, and all the things that all of us do. But more than any other people in the world, the Indians know how to love one another.
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#84. I couldn't tell him that I felt too weak and beat up to climb a mountain: sometimes, all the guts you have is the guts you pretend, because you love someone too much to lose their respect.
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#85. 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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#87. 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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#88. 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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#91. Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one half of a great love that isn't meant to be.
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#92. Fate's way of beating us in a fair fight is to give us warnings that we hear, but never heed.
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#93. Fate always gives you two choices, Scorpio George once said: the one you should take, and the one you do.
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#94. Well,' I laughed, 'I certainly don't know God, and frankly I'm inclined to think that God is impossible to believe in, at least most of the notions of God that I've come across.' 'Oh, of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.' He
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#96. Millions of dreams were born there, around us, every day. Millions of dreams died there, and were born again. The humid air was thick with dreams, everywhere, in my Mumbai.
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#97. 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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#99. I detest bullies for their cowardice, and despise them for their cruelty. I never knew a tough man who preyed on the weak. Tough men hate bullies almost as much as bullies hate tough men.
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#100. The best revenge, like the best sex, is performed slowly, and with the eyes open.
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