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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 41d6a79 | I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b29869a | the ghetto existed on a foundation of those anonymous, unthankable deeds; insignificant and almost trivial in themselves, but collectively essential to the survival of the slum. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 359bf03 | But I was loyal to the men, not the mafia; to the brothers, not the brotherhood. I worked for the mafia, but I didn't join it. I'm not a joiner. I never found a club or clan or idea that was more important to me than the men and women who believed in it. And | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d9846ac | Odinochestvo - eto drug, vsegda gotovyi sostavit' kompaniiu. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 6434bb5 | fate has every power over us, but two. Fate cannot control our free will, and fate cannot lie. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 567806f | Riding a motorcycle is velocity as poetry. The fine balance between elegant agility and fatal fall is a kind of truth, and like all truth, it carries a heartbeat with it into the sky. Eternal moments in the saddle escape the stuttering flow of time, and space, and purpose. Coursing on those wheels, on that river of air, in that flight of freed spirit there's no attachment, no fear, no joy, no hatred, no love, and no malice: the nearest thi.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9cbb3e5 | What comes from the earth always returns. What flourishes, dies away to bloom again. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 3534b2a | I know it isn't cruelty or shame that characterises the human race. It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| dc3da93 | a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5edcd45 | To my eyes, the city was beautiful. It was wild and exciting. Buildings that were British Raj-romantic stood side to side with modern, mirrored business towers. The haphazard slouch of neglected tenements crumbled into lavish displays of market vegetables and silks. I heard music from every shop and passing taxi. The colours were vibrant. The fragrances were dizzyingly delicious. And there were more smiles in the eyes on those crowded stree.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 05e113d | Fanaticism means that if you're not against me, you're against me. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0c431c3 | A mujaheddin fighter once told me that fate gives all of us three teachers, three friends, three enemies, and three great loves in our lives. But these twelve are always disguised, and we can never know which one is which until we've loved them, left them, or fought them. Khader was one of my twelve, but his disguise was always the best. In those abandoned, angry days, as my grieving heart limped into numbing despair, I began to think of hi.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| b540b36 | Friendship is also a kind of medicine, and the markets for it, too, are sometimes black. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 76e5205 | Non so cosa mi spaventa di piu: il potere che ci schiaccia o la nostra infinita capacita di sopportarlo. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| acfc814 | Is easy--suffering is hungry, isn't it? Hungry, for anything, means suffering. Not hungry for something, means, not suffering. But everybody knows that. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 542b290 | The more slender your grip on reality, the more dangerous the world becomes. On the other hand, the more rational the world you find yourself in, the more carefully it must be questioned. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 5fa3540 | But somehow, in some way, for some reason, the love had died in me, and I suddenly realised it, and was suddenly sure. It wasn't completely over, my feeling for Karla. It never is completely over. But there was nothing of the jealousy I once would've felt for the stranger Ranjit. There was no rage against him, and no feeling of hurt inspired by her. I felt numbed and empty sitting there, as if the war, and the loss of Khaderbhai and Khaled,.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 18854df | We can compel men not to be bad, but we cannot compel them to be good, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9619e1a | Niewiele ludzi umiera w Indyjskim Domu Goscinnym, glownie tylko narkomany, takie chude. Dla was nie problem, wy takie piekne, wielkie, tluste. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 170d1c0 | Legendy mowia, ze wybranke mozna rozpoznac natychmiast, poniewaz budzi milosc kazdym gestem, kazdym zdaniem, kazdym ruchem, kazdym dzwiekiem i kazdym nastrojem, ktory odbija sie w jej oczach. Legendy powiadaja, ze mozna ja poznac po skrzydlach - skrzydlach widzialnych tylko przez wybranka - i po tym, ze tesknota do niej zabije wszelkie inne dazenia milosci. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| a76c392 | najlepsza sztuczka w zyciu jest chciec niczego i dostac to. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 99efba7 | czasami trzeba sie poddac, zanim sie wygra. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 14009f9 | Twierdze, ze rzeczywistosc, taka, jaka znamy, jaka zna ogol, to nic wiecej niz iluzja. Za tym, co widzimy oczami, istnieje inna rzeczywistosc. Trzeba ja rozpoznac sercem. Nie ma innego sposobu. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0ab9cba | Kiedy jestesmy mlodzi, sadzimy, ze cierpienie to cos, co ktos nam moze zadac. Kiedy przybywa nam lat - kiedy zatrzaskuja sie jakies stalowe drzwi - wiemy juz, ze prawdziwe cierpienie mierzy sie tym, co nam odebrano. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 14fa9fa | mezczyzni zdradzaja swoje mysli, odwracajac wzrok, a uczucia - wahajac sie. Z kobietami, dodala, jest dokladnie na odwrot. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 53b2e5e | Convictions are variable; to be always consistent is to be sometimes dishonest. | Ambrose Bierce | ||
| 3055528 | There's a kind of luck that's not much more than being in the right place at the right time, a kind of inspiration that's not much more than doing the right thing in the right way, and both only really happen to you when you empty your heart of ambition, purpose, and plan; when you give yourself, completely, to the golden, fate-filled moment. I | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| e5c306b | They slink up beside you, and whisper I thought you should know. Then they proceed to destroy your confidence, and trust, and even the quality of your life with their disgusting fragment of the truth. Some scrap of repugnant knowledge that they insist on being honest with you about. Something you'd rather not know. Something you could hate them for telling you. Something you actually do hate them for telling you. And why do they do it? Hone.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 7af160b | 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 won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| f100dee | of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 4e6db7d | Zemsta, tak jak seks, najlepsza jest powolna, nalezy ja zaspokajac z otwartymi oczami. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 81bdba9 | When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 0998076 | through his thick, black hair. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 74a76ff | Sometimes you break your heart in the right way, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 515b858 | The truth is that we are all, every one of us, every atom, every galaxy, and every particle of matter in the universe, moving toward God. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d9af9e5 | India is about six times the size of France," he went on, as the glass of alcohol and a bowl of curried snacks arrived at our table. "But it has almost twenty times the population. Twenty times! Believe me, if there were a billion Frenchmen living i n such a crowded space, there would be rivers of blood. Rivers o f blood! And, as everyone knows, we French are the most civilised people in Europe. Indeed, in the whole world. No, no, without l.. | indians tolerance | Gregory David Roberts | |
| 77fb845 | Your heart starts to feel like an overcrowded lifeboat. You throw your pride out to keep it afloat, and your self-respect and your independence. After a while you start throwing people out--your friends, everyone you used to know. And it's still not enough. The lifeboat is still sinking, and you know it's going to take you down with it. I've seen that happen to a lot of girls here. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d78a042 | I don't know about the universe, but I'll make a pact with you. I hereby promise that I'll always dance in the rain at least once, in every one of my monsoons. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| df8fd6c | resentment is unmet need or desire, | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 976fe12 | There are only one million of them, the truly evil men, in the whole world. The very rich and the very powerful, whose decisions really count--they only number one million. The stupid men, who number ten million, are the soldiers and policemen who enforce the rule of the evil men. They are the standing armies of twelve key countries, and the police forces of those and twenty more. In total, there are only ten million of them with any real p.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 471b912 | THE WORLD IS RUN by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 9a98cc7 | The evil men are the power--the rich men, and the politicians, and the fanatics of religion--whose decisions rule the world, and set it on its course of greed and destruction. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| d72c9f8 | And the hundred million cowards,' Abdul Ghani continued, pinching the handle of the teacup between his plump fingers, 'they are the bureaucrats and paper shufflers and pen-pushers who permit the rule of the evil men, and look the other way. They are the head of this department, and the secretary of that committee, and the president of the other association. They are managers, and officials, and mayors, and officers of the court. They always.. | Gregory David Roberts | ||
| 2aa4c88 | ili chto-nibud' vrode etogo? | Gregory David Roberts |