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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.
Rohinton Mistry
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Rohinton Mistry
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: July 3
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Bombay
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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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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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Birth and death - what could be more monstrous than that? We like to deceive ourselves and call it wondrous and beautiful and majestic, but it's freakish, let's face it.
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The whole quilt is much more important than any single square.
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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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There didn't seem to her any harm in it, and the make-believe was so comforting.
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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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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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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.
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Time had changed the magical to mundane
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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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Walk, first, through the fire, then philosophize.
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