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
giving-up rights too-much
Lately you are brooding too much about rights. Give up this dangerous habit.
believe comforting harm
There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.
carnage humans wounded
The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
emotion wonder made
Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure...
distance people changed
Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.
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
cutting night scary
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.
men car occupation
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 streets competing with the cars and buses and lorries because it is the poor man's mode of transport.
pain sadness sorrow
Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
poverty blind worst
The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
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.
helping-others evil choices
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 side of good by prospering, making money and using our wealth to help others.
changed mundane
Time had changed the magical to mundane
stories details different
So we tell the same story, over and over. Just the details are different