Quotes by Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry

…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.

Laughing

Mother

Space

…there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the new border; it became a river of blood upon the earth. And the orchards, fields, factories, businesses, all on the wrong side of that line, vanished with a wave of the pale conjuror’s wand.

Blood

Rivers

Two Nations

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

Events

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, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

Perception

Real

Writing

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain – try to remove it and you kill the patient.

Black

Brain

White

But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated – not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

Memories

Pain

Sadness

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

Children

Details

Important

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

Flirting

Madness

Whole

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

Names

Past

Patient

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

Length

Long

Together

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Ambition

Believe

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Blind

Blood

Brain

Car

Carnage

Changed

Children

Choices

Comforting

Country

Cutting

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Different

Dream

Events

Evil

Flirting

Girl

Hair

Harm

Helping Others

Humans

Imagination

Important

Kind

Laughing

Length

Life

Lines

Long

Madness

Memories

Men

Mother

Moving

Mundane

Names

Night

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Quotes by Rohinton Mistry

Rohinton Mistry

…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.

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.

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, consciously or subconsciously. This accumulation of detail can be drawn on when you write fiction.

Black money is so much a part of our white economy, a tumour in the centre of the brain – try to remove it and you kill the patient.

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

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

Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.

How can time be long or short? Time is without length or breadth. The question is, what happened during its passing. And what happened is, our lives have been joined together.

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