Rohinton Mistry Quotes

• This was an outstanding family subject in our real life.

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• Time had changed the magical to mundane.

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

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• Independence came at a high price: a debt with a payment schedule of hurt and regret.

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• Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.

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

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• Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.

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• The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.

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• Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure.

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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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• The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.

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• Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.

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• 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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• There didn’t seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.

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• The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no room for crying.

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• The secret of survival was to balance hope and despair.

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Rohinton Mistry (16)

Birth:	3rd July, 1952
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Novelist, Writer

About

Rohinton Mistry is an Indian-born Canadian writer in English. Residing in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, Mistry is of Indian origin, originally from Mumbai. He practises Zoroastrianism and belongs to the Parsi community. Mistry is a Neustadt International Prize for Literature laureate.

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