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Rohinton Mistry – kanadyjski powieściopisarz pochodzenia indyjskiego, trzykrotny finalista Nagrody Bookera, laureat Międzynarodowej Nagrody Neustadt w dziedzinie literatury . Wyznawca zoroastryzmu perskiego[potrzebny przypis].

Do Kanady wyemigrował w 1975 roku. Początkowo pracował w banku , potem zaczął publikować opowiadania w czasopismach.

Jego książki opowiadają o życiu w Indiach, a losy ich bohaterów są często splecione z ważnymi wydarzeniami z historii kraju .

W 1998 roku powstała ekranizacja debiutanckiej powieści Mistry’ego, Such a Long Journey, w reżyserii Sturli Gunnarssona.

Rohinton Mistry jest bratem innego indyjskiego pisarza, Cyrusa Mistry’ego. Wikipedia  

✵ 3. Lipiec 1952  •  Natępne imiona رویین‌تن میستری, റോഹിൻടൺ മിസ്ത്രി, 羅希頓·密斯奇
Rohinton Mistry: 17 cytatów0 Polubień

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“… you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. 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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“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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“Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.”

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“After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.”

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“Distance was a dangerous thing, she knew. Distance changed people.”

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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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Wariant: The human face has limited space. If you fill it with laughter there will be no 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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“Money can buy the necessary police order. Justice is sold to the highest bidder”

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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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“Where humans are concerned, the only emotion that made sense was wonder, at their ability to endure…”

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“What sense did the world make? Where was God, the Bloody Fool? Did He have no notion of fair and unfair? Couldn't He read a simple balance sheet? He would have been sacked long ago if He were managing a corporation, the things he allowed to happen…”

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“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.”

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

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