Gregory David Roberts

A man trusts another man when he sees enough of himself in him.

— Gregory David Roberts

Silence is the tortured man's revenge.

— Gregory David Roberts

“Gimme an honest frown over a false smile, any day.”

— Gregory David Roberts

every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.

— Gregory David Roberts

Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

— Gregory David Roberts

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore.

— Gregory David Roberts

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

— Gregory David Roberts

Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.

— Gregory David Roberts

Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.

— Gregory David Roberts

“The trick in life is to want nothing. And then work our way towards achieving it.”

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“Despotism despieses nothing so much as righteousness in its victims”

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

“We can't really know what a pleasure it is to run in our own language until we're forced to stumble in someone…

— Gregory David Roberts

A politician is someone who promises a bridge even when there's no water

— Gregory David Roberts

Because my life has been so notorious and so bad, it can overshadow my work.

— Gregory David Roberts

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

— Gregory David Roberts

“a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same,…

— Gregory David Roberts

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should…

— Gregory David Roberts

I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short…

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“Fear dries a man’s mouth, and hate strangles him. That’s why hate has no great literature: real fear and real hate have…

— Gregory David Roberts

“Anything that inhibits, impedes, or prevents this movement toward the Ultimate Complexity is evil. The wonderful thing about this definition of good…

— Gregory David Roberts

'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the…

— Gregory David Roberts

“There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your…

— Gregory David Roberts

“A young man didn't bring flowers or chocolates to the woman he loved: He brought her stories from the wider world, where…

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But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive.…

— Gregory David Roberts

“A mujaheddin fighter once told me that fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves…

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That's how they manage to live together, a billion of them, in reasonable peace. They are not perfect, of course. They know…

— Gregory David Roberts

A wise man once told me- he’s a muslim by the way- that he has more in common with a jew than…

— Gregory David Roberts

A man has to find a good woman, and when he finds her he has to win her love. then he has…

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“The cops watched me and the Georges and the other foreigners who worked the streets, and they knew exactly what we were…

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“That's how we keep this crazy place together - with the heart. Two hundred fuckin' languages, and a billion people. India is…

— Gregory David Roberts

Some loves are like that. Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it…

— Gregory David Roberts

“But somehow, in some way, for some reason, the love had died in me, and I suddenly realised it, and was suddenly…

— Gregory David Roberts

“The Indians are the Italians of Asia", Didier pronounced with a sage and mischievous grin. "It can be said, certainly, with equal…

— Gregory David Roberts

“A man opposite me shifted his feet, accidentally brushing his foot against mine. It was a gentle touch, barely noticeable, but the…

— Gregory David Roberts

Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

— Gregory David Roberts

A good man is as strong as the right woman needs him to be.

— Gregory David Roberts

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

— Gregory David Roberts

The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

— Gregory David Roberts

There's no heart like the Indian heart.

— Gregory David Roberts