So this is pretty crazy. I just stumbled upon news that the book Shantaram will be adapted to motion picture. The movie will be released in 2009, starring Johnny Depp as the main character Lin. Kinda crazy since I just read the book not even two months ago. Interesting because the book was such a pivotal, inspiring and thought-provoking book for me.
Here's a recap of my previous postings about the memoir:
Shantaram (excellent you should read it, it's too complex to get into what it’s about right now though). It had this quote – “interested in everything, but committed to nothing.” That line kept echoing in my mind.
“We can know God, for example, and we can know sadness. We can know dreams, and we can know love. But none of these are real, in our usual sense of things that exist in the world and seem real. We cannot weigh them, or measure their length, or find their basic parts in an atom smasher. Which is why they are possible.”
“The truth is often found more often in music, than it is in books of philosophy.”
“The truth is that here are no good men, or bad men. It is the deeds that have goodness or badness in them. There are good deeds and bad deed. Men are just men – it is what they do, or refuse to do, that links them to good and evil. The truth is that an instant of real love in the heart of anyone – the noblest man alive, or the most wicked – has the whole purpose and process and meaning of life within the lotus-fields of its passion. 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.”
“Of course, naturally, God is impossible. That is the first proof that He exists.”
“All possible things don’t exist.”
“Nothing exists as we see it. Nothing we see is really there, as we think we are seeing it. Our eyes are liars. Everything that seems real, is merely part of the illusion. Nothing exists, as we think it does. Not you. Not me. Not this room. Nothing.”
“The sane man is simply a better liar than the insane man.”
Kismet = Fate (Urdu language)
“Reality, as most people see it, is nothing more than an illusion.”
“There is another reality, beyond what we see with our eyes. You have to feel your way into that reality with your heart. There is no other way.”
“Dream the future. Plan it. Then make it happen.”
“Suffering is the way we test our love, especially our love for God.”
“Justice is a judgment that is both fair and forgiving. Justice is not only the way we punish those who do wrong. It is also the way we try to save them.”
“A politician is someone who promises you a bridge even when there’s no river.”
“I don’t know what scares me more, the madness that smashes people down or their ability to endure it.”
“The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the burden of suffering.”
“What characterizes the human race more? Cruelty or the capacity to feel shame for it?”
- Niether. “It’s forgiveness that makes us what we are.”
“We live on because we love, and we love because we can forgive.”
“Every time we cage a man, we close him in with hate.”
“Fear dries a man’s mouth and hate strangles him. That’s why hate has no great literature: real fear and real hate have no words.”
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