Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Robertsis an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryAustralia
real world
The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
bully shantaram truth-is
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
rain men too-late
The truth is that the man I am was born in those moments, as I stood near the flood sticks with my face lifted to the chrismal rain. Shantaram. The better man that, slowly, and much too late, I began to be.
hurt secret shantaram
It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
nuts shells should
Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.
children men giving
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.
people shantaram
You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
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?