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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• We have a saying in Marseilles: a man in no hurry gets nowhere fast. I have been in no hurry for eight years.

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  Men, Eight, Years

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.48, Macmillan

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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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• at first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. what we should fear and dread, of course, is that we wont stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. for i still love you with the whole of my heart. i still love you. and sometimes, my friend, the love that i have and cant give to you, crushed the breast from my chest. soemtimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

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  Stars, Laughter, Love You

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.553, Macmillan

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

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  Taken, Names, Surprise

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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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• 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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• The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

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  Simple, Men, Perfect

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.9, 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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• When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• But I smiled, and smiling was easy, no matter how strange and disorienting the street seemed to be. I was a fugitive. I was a wanted man, a hunted man, with a price on my head. And I was still one step ahead of them. 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.

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  Running, Men, Stories

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.23, 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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• The choking humidity makes amphibians of us all, in Bombay, breathing water in air; you learn to live with it, and you learn to like it, or you leave.

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  Air, Breathing, Water

  Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.8, Macmillan

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