Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry
Rohinton Mistry CMis an Indian-born Canadian. He was awarded the Neustadt International Prize for Literature in 2012...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth3 July 1952
CountryCanada
life stupid thinking
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.
poverty blind worst
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
loss essentials calamity
Loss is essential. Loss is part and parcel of that necessary calamity called life.
balance despair fine
You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair.
thinking past age
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.
memories two imagination
In the broad sense, as a processing of everything one hears or witnesses, all fiction is autobiographical - imagination ground through the mill of memory. It's impossible to separate the two ingredients.
white black brain
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.
long together length
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.
moving use lines
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
distance people changed
Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
ceilings spit
He who spits paan at the ceiling only blinds himself.
giving-up rights too-much
Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.
loss essence snakes
...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...
carnage humans wounded
The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake