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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Friendship is an Algebra test that nobody passes.

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  Tests, Algebra

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• Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

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  Taken, Names, Surprise

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• but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.

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  Misuse, Immune, Nations

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.45, Macmillan

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

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  Hate, Doe, World

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

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• It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured.\

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  Wall, Heart, Fate

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.7, Macmillan

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• So when will be the time to get on the train? I think.....a little bit almost quite very soon and not long.

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  Thinking, Long, Littles

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.93, 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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• Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.

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  Eye, Being In Love, Voice

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.452, St. Martin's Press

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

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  People, Shantaram, Worst

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

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• I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.

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  Persons

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.220, Macmillan

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• The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.

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  Voice, Half, Afghan

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.25, 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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• More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

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  Dream, India, Bombay

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• Nobody who has done business in any country with an Indian would doubt the shrewdness of Indians, but what Indian people bring to the world is something special and unique, which is the capacity for a loving interaction.

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  Country, Unique, People

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