Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Roberts
Gregory David Robertsis an Australian author best known for his novel Shantaram. He is a former heroin addict and convicted bank robber who escaped from Pentridge Prison in 1980 and fled to India, where he lived for ten years...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionAuthor
CountryAustralia
life novels quartet second sequel series third
'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.
edge essence experience extreme life people
Sometimes, when you live a life at such a wild edge, an extreme edge of experience, you can come back into the world - if you come back at all - with some essence from that experience that people find useful.
inspirational life loneliness
Some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths are so painful that only shame can help you live with them. Some things are so sad that only your soul can do the crying for them.
life tears sometimes
Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.
heart possibility beats
every human heart beat is a universe of possibilities.
running stupid men
The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.
children hands inspire
Nothing ever fits the palm so perfectly, or feels so right, or inspires so much protective instinct as the hand of a child
revenge men silence
Silence is the tortured man's revenge.
winning sometimes surrender
Sometimes you have to surrender before you win.
persons
I take everything personally- that's what being a person is all about.
voice half afghan
The voice, Afghan matchmakers say, is more than half of love.
misuse nations immune
but there's no nation uncorrupted. there's no system that's immune to the misuse of money.
brother pride blood
Poverty and pride are devoted blood brothers until one, always and inevitably, kills the other.
dream wish rambling
When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.