David Roberts
David Roberts
running stories happy-endings
I was free. Every day, when you're on the run, is the whole of your life. Every free minute is a short story with a happy ending.
dirty cities world
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.
thinking think-of-you knows
Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
people shantaram praise
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.
eye actors indian
Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.
thinking people looks
Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.
two movement helping
One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?
thinking long littles
So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.
depressing years advice
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.
pain sadness ends
If you could be happy, really happy, for just a while, but you knew from the start that it would end in sadness, and bring pain afterwards, would you choose to have that happiness or would you avoid it?
heart mean men
The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.
civilization shantaram permit
Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.
world stuff shantaram
A lot of bad stuff in the world wasn’t really that bad until someone tried to change it.
hate fate men
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.