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8 quotes by Gregory David Roberts

Gregory David Roberts (born June 1952) (born Gregory John Peter Smith ) is 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.
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More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

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Once you love something, you can never stop loving it. Even after a divorce, the heart will not stop loving.

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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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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.

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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... →

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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... →

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I think the novel form chose me. I was a writer before I became a criminal... my first instinct was to write.

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I've been to Delhi, Madras, Bangalore and a lot of other cities, but I have never seen a crime set-up like that in Bombay.

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