Rohinton Mistry Quotes
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All fiction relies on the real world in the sense that we all take in the world through our five senses and we accumulate details,…
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There was no such thing as perfect privacy, life was a perpetual concert-hall recital with a captive audience.
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Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
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In foreign countries they fear baldness. They are so rich in foreign countries, they can afford to fear all kinds of silly things.
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You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
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So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different
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In the end, it’s all a question of balance.
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Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize...
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Zoroastrianism is about the opposition of good and evil. For the triumph of good, we have to make a choice. We can enlist on the…
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Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.
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The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
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I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I…
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In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory.…
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Traffic in the streets of Bombay is chaotic at best. Riding a bicycle is a dangerous occupation. However, there are hundreds of them on the…
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Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain - try to remove it and…
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I think a lot about the past, it's true. But at my age, the past is more present than the here and now. and there…
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Time had changed the magical to mundane
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...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end…
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There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.
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Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.
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