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
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CountryAustralia
lying fighting people
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.
lying believe fate
In the face of all that is so wrong with the world, the very worst thing you can do is survive. And yet you must survive. It is this dilemma that makes us believe and cling to the lie that we have a soul, and that there is a God who cares about its fate.
song lying first-love
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.
heart possibility beats
every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
running stupid men
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
life novels quartet second sequel series third
'Shantaram' is the second in the series of a quartet of novels that I have planned about my life but is the first to be written. The third book is a sequel to 'Shantaram,' the first a prequel.
I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.
edge essence experience extreme life people
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.
children hands inspire
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
revenge men silence
Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
people shantaram worst
Some of the worst wrongs, were caused by people who tried to change things.
winning sometimes surrender
Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.
persons
I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.
men winning good-woman
A man is truly a man when he wins the love of a good woman, earns her respect, and keeps her trust. Until you can do that, you're not a man.