David Roberts
David Roberts
cynical shantaram bigs
The only force more ruthless and cynical than the business of big politics is the politics of big business.
heart simple people
The simple and astonishing truth about India and Indian people is that when you go there, and deal with them, your heart always guides you more wisely than your head. There's nowhere else in the world where that's quite so true.
real world
The only power that has any real meaning is the power to better the world.
bully shantaram truth-is
The truth is a bully we all pretend to like
rain men too-late
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.
hurt secret shantaram
It isn't a secret, unless keeping it hurts.
nuts shells should
Anything that can be put in a nut shell should remain there.
children men giving
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.
people shantaram
You can never tell what people have inside them until you start taking it away, one hope at a time
running stories happy-endings
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.
dirty cities world
A city may be dirty on the outside but is clean on the inside. Many cities in the world are clean on the outside but dirty on the inside.
thinking think-of-you knows
Never let anyone know what you're thinking - always know what the other thinks of you.
people shantaram praise
Praising people behind their back is monstrously unfair, because the one thing you can't defend yourself against is the good that people say about you.
eye actors indian
Indian actors know how to shout with the eyes.