Shantaram Quotes - Page 4

• You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time

  Gregory David Roberts

  People

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.527, Macmillan

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• There's no heart like the Indian heart.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Indian

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.403, Macmillan

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

  Gregory David Roberts

  World, Stuff, Bad Stuff

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.90, Macmillan

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

  Gregory David Roberts

  Suffering, Our Love, Tests

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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.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Dream, Wish, Rambling

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

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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 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.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Lying, Fighting, People

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.61, Hachette UK

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• Justice is a judgement that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not done until everyone is satisfied, even those who offend us and must be punished by us. You can see, by what we have done with these two boys, that justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Boys, Two, Justice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.205, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Winning, Men, Good Woman

  Gregory David Roberts (2012). “Shantaram”, p.376, Hachette UK

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

  Gregory David Roberts

  Thinking, Our Future

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

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• Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child

  Gregory David Roberts

  Children, Hands, Inspire

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.287, Macmillan

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• 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.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Children, Men, Giving

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.312, Macmillan

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• Family is the most important thing in the world.

  Princess Diana

  Inspirational, Family, Money

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• Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Brother, Pride, Blood

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.206, Macmillan

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• justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Justice, Trying, Way

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.205, 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.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Book, Firsts, Novel

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• It doesnt always help us to love the world,but it does prevent us from hating the world.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Hate, Doe, World

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.77, Macmillan

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• Civilization, after all, is defined by what we forbid, more than what we permit.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Civilization, Permit, Defined

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.50, Macmillan

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• The truth is a bully we all pretend to like

  Gregory David Roberts

  Bully, Truth Is

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

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• The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Cynical, Bigs, Force

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.50, Macmillan

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• There is no man, and no place, without war. The only thing we can do is choose a side, and fight. That is the only choice we get - who we fight for, who we fight against. That is life.

  Gregory David Roberts

  War, Fighting, Men

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• Being popular is the most important thing in the world!

  Homer

  Family, Money, World And Love

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• Every virtuous act has some Dark secret in its heart; every risk we take contains a mystery that can’t be solved.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Heart, Dark, Risk

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.367, Macmillan

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

  Gregory David Roberts

  People, Worst

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.325, Macmillan

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