Rohinton Mistry Quotes

• Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.

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  Flirting, Madness, Whole

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Mar 29, 2016

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• La colcha en su conjunto es mucho más importante que un solo cuadrado.

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  Quilts, Squares, Important

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Mar 25, 2012

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• Everyone underestimates their own life. Funny thing is, in the end, all our stories...they're the same. In fact, no matter where you go in the world, there is only one important story: of youth, loss and yearning for redemption. So we tell the same story, over and over. Only the details are different.

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  Loss, Funny Things, Important

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Oct 28, 2012

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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 it’s all a question of balance.

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  Balance, Despair, Use

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage

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• After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

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  Choices, Add, Events

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.758, Vintage

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• ...the face has limited space. My mother used to say, if you fill your face with laughing, there will be no more room for crying.

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  Mother, Space, Laughing

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• If there was an abundance of misery in the world, there was also sufficient joy, yes - as long as one knew where to look for it.

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  Long, Joy, World

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Jul 27, 2016

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• You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success

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  Moving, Use, Lines

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.232, Faber & Faber

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• World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

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  Sueño, Ambición, Mundo

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “Tales from Firozsha Baag”, p.117, Faber & Faber

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• What folly made young people, even those in middle age, think they were immortal? How much better, their lives, if they could remember the end. Carrying your death with you every day would make it hard to waste time on unkindness and anger and bitterness, on anything petty. That was the secret: remembering your dying time, in order to keep the stupid and the ugly out of your living time.

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  Life, Stupid, Thinking

  FaceBook post by Rohinton Mistry from Jan 13, 2013

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• You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.

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  Balance, Despair, Fine

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage

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• Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder

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  Order, Justice, Police

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “A Fine Balance”, p.432, Faber & Faber

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• Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.

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  Distance, People, Dangerous

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.316, Vintage

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• Let me tell you a secret: there is no such thing as an uninteresting life One day you must tell me your full and complete story, unabridged and unexpurgated.We will set aside some time for it, and meet. It's very important. Maneck smiled. 'Why is it important?' It's extremely important because it helps to remind yourself of who you are. Then you can go forward, without fear of losing yourself in this ever-changing world.

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  Secret, Important, One Day

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• The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.

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  Poverty, Blind, Worst

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• In the end, it’s all a question of balance.

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  Balance, Ends

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.328, Vintage

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• So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different

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  Details, Different, Stories

  Rohinton Mistry (2008). “Family Matters”, p.157, Faber & Faber

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• …God is a giant quiltmaker. With an infinite variety of designs. And the quilt is grown so big and confusing, the pattern is impossible to see, the squares and diamonds and triangles don’t fit well together anymore, it’s all become meaningless. So He has abandoned it.

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  Quilts, Squares, Design

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• ¿Cómo puede el tiempo ser largo o corto? El tiempo no tiene longitud ni anchura. La cuestión es qué ha pasado durante su transcurso. Y lo que ha pasado es que nuestras vidas se han unido.

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  Long, Together, Length

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• Loss is essential, loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life. Mind you, I'm not complaining. Thanks to some inexplicable universal guiding force, it is always the worthless things we lose - slough off, like a moulting snake. Losing and losing again, is the very basis of the process, til all we are left with is the bare essence of human existence.

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  Loss, Essence, Snakes

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• If time were a bolt of cloth,” said Om, “I would cut out all the bad parts. Snip out the scary nights and stitch together the good parts, to make time bearable. Then I could wear it like a coat, always live happily.

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  Cutting, Night, Scary

  Rohinton Mistry (2010). “A Fine Balance”, p.418, Vintage

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• Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.

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  Children, Important, Details

  "Touched with fire" by Angela Lambert, www.theguardian.com. April 26, 2002.

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• Time had changed the magical to mundane

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  Changed, Mundane

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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 is not much percentage in the future.

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  Thinking, Past, Age

  "Family Matters". Book by Rohinton Mistry, 2002.

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• Qué poco fiable es el tiempo: cuando quiero que vuele, las horas se me pegan como pegamento. Y qué cambiante es también. El tiempo es la cuerda que ata nuestras vidas en paquetes de años y meses. O una goma elástica que se estira a nuestro antojo. El tiempo puede ser la bonita cinta en el pelo de una niña. O las líneas de tu cara, robándote tu color juvenil y tu pelo. .... Pero al final, el tiempo es una soga alrededor del cuello, que estrangula lentamente.

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  Girl, Ties, Hair

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