Rohinton Mistry Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Rohinton Mistry:

Children don't make judgments about which details are important... a child captures them all.
~Rohinton Mistry


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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.
~Rohinton Mistry


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/rohinton-mistry-quotes/#f695b3c9

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.
~Rohinton Mistry


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/rohinton-mistry-quotes/#2045167b

The worst part of great poverty is that you become blind to it.
~Rohinton Mistry


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/rohinton-mistry-quotes/#3fd2eb81

I met my wife when we were both 19 or 20, at a music school where she was taking voice and piano lessons and I was doing classes in music theory and composition.
~Rohinton Mistry


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/rohinton-mistry-quotes/#8ef1b9c0

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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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/rohinton-mistry-quotes/#95994348

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.
~Rohinton Mistry


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/rohinton-mistry-quotes/#f2ecd355

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