Gregory David Roberts Quotes about Past

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The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

Gregory David Roberts

Dark, Past, Mirrors

"Shantaram". Book by Gregory David Roberts, 2003.

I think the future is like anything else that's important. It has to be earned. If we don't earn it, we don't have a future at all. And if we don't earn it, we don't deserve it, we have to live in the present, more or less forever. Or worse, we have to live in the past. I think that's probably what love is - a way of earning the future.

Gregory David Roberts

Past, Love Is, Thinking

Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.85, Macmillan

The contrast between the familiar and the exceptional was everywhere around me. A bullock cart was drawn up beside a modern sports car at a traffic signal. A man squatted to relieve himself behind the discreet shelter of a satellite dish. An electric forklift truck was being used to unload goods from an ancient wooden cart with wooden wheels. The impression was of a plodding indefatigable and distant past that had crashed intact through barriers of time into its own future. I liked it.

Gregory David Roberts

Sports, Past, Men

Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

The cloak of the past is cut from patches of feeling ,and sewn with rebus threads.Most of the time , the best we can do is wrap it around ourselves for comfort or drag it behind us as we struggle to go on .

Gregory David Roberts

Struggle, Cutting, Past

Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.765, Macmillan

Gregory David Roberts Quotes about Past

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