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• 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.

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  Lying, Believe, Fate

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.86, Macmillan

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• Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.

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  Eye, Actors, Know How

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• Fanatics have the look of people who do not masturbate but who think about it almost all time.

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  Thinking, People, Looks

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.81, Macmillan

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• Some things are just so sad that only your soul can do the crying for you.

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  Soul, Cry, Shantaram

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.114, Macmillan

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• The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

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  Bully, Shantaram, Truth Is

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.57, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Book, Firsts, Shantaram

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• Crime is stupid, lazy and weak. You can only exploit it and make money out of it.

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  Stupid, Lazy, Making Money

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• While the foods were being prepared, I watched as men dragged a foot-operated grinding wheel into an open space, and the groom devoted a tense hour to putting a razor's edge to a large, ornate dagger. The bride's father watched that effort with a critical eye. After satisfying himself that the weapon was suitably lethal, he gravely accepted it as a gift from the younger man. The groom has just sharpened the knife that the bride's father will use on him, if he ever mistreats the girl.

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  Girl, Father, Eye

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.620, Macmillan

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

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  Notorious, Has Beens

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

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  Strong, Men, Good Man

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.567, Macmillan

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• The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.

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  Real, World

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.794, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Rain, Men, Too Late

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.125, Macmillan

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• 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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  Dream, Wish, Rambling

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.137, Macmillan

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• But the soul has no culture. The soul has no nations. The soul has no colour or accent or way of life. The soul is forever. The soul is one. And when the heart has its moment of truth and sorrow, the soul can't be stilled.

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  Heart, Forever, Soul

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and every woman is a dancer when she walks to the shop at the corner. For them, food is the music inside the body and music is the food inside the heart. Amore or Pyar makes every man a poet, a princess of peasant girl if only for second eyes of man and woman meets.

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  Girl, Country, Princess

  "Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

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• One, what would happen if everyone did this thing? Two, would this help or hinder the movement toward universal ultimate complexity?

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  Two, Movement, Helping

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• I think that we all, each one of us, we all have to earn our future.

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  Thinking, Shantaram, Our Future

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.85, Macmillan

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

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  Suffering, Our Love, Tests

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• Whatever you do, in the privacy of your own rain shower, is your own business

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  Rain, Privacy, Showers

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.348, Macmillan

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• 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.

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  Mean, Heart, Men

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• I went to war. .... I survived, while other men around me died. ... men whose lives were crunched up in mistakes, and thrown away by the wrong second of someone else's hate, or love, or indifference.

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  Hate, War, Mistake

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• 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.

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  Depressing, Years, Advice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.482, St. Martin's Press

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• Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

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  Tests, Algebra

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• Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.

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  Thinking, Think Of You, Knows

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.53, Macmillan

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• 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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  Angel, Wry Smile, Talking

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